We are delighted to announce that our A and AS Level exam results continue to improve year on year. This year there was an overall pass rate of 96%, with a record breaking 73% of our students obtaining A-C grades with us. A 100% pass rate was achieved in 16 subjects including Further Maths, Maths, Physics, and History.Principal Keith Elliott said, ‘These excellent results are due to the dedication of the staff and the excellent teaching which takes place at the College’s A Level Centre, and of course the sheer hard work of all the students. Congratulations to them all.’
Alec Cryer who heads up the A Level Centre said, ‘The A Level Centre is enjoying continued success. Our Centre is expanding further; this year applications are up by at least 10% and we are introducing a new A Level subject this year: World Development.’
A Zimbabwean woman who was so determined to study she borrowed books in Harare to teach herself biology has achieved three A levels.
Jean Masanyero, 20, left Zimbabwe in 2005 and arrived in the UK barely speaking English.
She has now passed her A Levels at City of Bristol college and will go on to study dietetics at Surrey university.
She combined studying with settling in to a new country and caring for her brother, four, while her mother worked.
Ms Masanyero, who gained three C grades in maths, chemistry and biology, said: "I don't care if people say A-levels are getting easier - this is the biggest achievement of my life."
And she said it was "always her dream" to have an education in England, especially after her parents' divorce left her facing "a hard life".
She said: "It has been a struggle settling in to a new country - there has been a lot to juggle.
"My mother is out working so I have had to look after my small brother.
"At the same time I have been studying for these exams in what is barely my second language."
In Zimbabwe, she borrowed books from a library to teach herself biology, before her mother was granted a visa to move their family to the UK.
She said: "We had wanted to move here for years.
"I applied to colleges as soon as we arrived - I am so relieved they gave me my chance."
(BBC.CO.UK - link)
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