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12 Aug, 8 tweets, 4 min read
🚨The number of GCSE students achieving a clean sweep of top marks has quadrupled since before the pandemic
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📈This year 3,606 pupils in England were handed all 9s, the highest grade, up from 837 in 2019, the last year that students took exams
✍️Like the A-level results on Tuesday, #GCSEs2021 revealed substantial grade inflation.

⬆️30.2% of all entries were graded 7 or above - the equivalent of A and A* grades under the old system
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👩‍🎓Girls were more likely to receive the top grade, with 8.9% receiving a 9, compared to 5.9% for boys.

Over a third of female entries gained the top grades (7 or above), compared to 25.6% of male entries; by far the highest gap this century
🔺The largest grade inflation was seen in economics, performing arts and engineering.

📚Yet students studying the classics - such as Latin or Ancient Greek - remained the most likely to achieve the top grades overall
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🏫Independent schools also saw the highest level of inflation.

📈The number of pupils receiving top grades at independent schools increased at double the rate of comprehensives
🇬🇧The divide in grade inflation is also visible geographically, with 34.5% of results in London grade 7 and above, compared to 24.4% in Yorkshire and the Humber
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🗨️In subject uptake, languages have seen the sharpest decline in recent years, with both French and German entries falling by at least a quarter over the past decade.

🔻Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Italian and Polish also saw declines, after having peaked five years ago

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🔴Breaking: A major incident has been declared in Plymouth, with a number of air ambulances and police vehicles called amid reports of a suspected shooting

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12 Aug
2021 GCSE results have been the topic of much contention...

🧠However one statistic is certain: the girls outperform the boys.

Why are girls brainer? Science has a clear and clever answer

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📑If this story sounds familiar, that’s because it is.

Prof Alan Smithers, the report’s author, noted that ever since GCSEs replaced O-levels almost four decades ago, girls had consistently outperformed boys
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When this year’s A-level results were published on Tuesday, the gender gap was likewise found to have reached its highest level in a decade.

The rate of A* and A grades stood at:
👧 46.4% for girls
👦41.7% for boys
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11 Aug
Gen Zers have done it again... they've changed the rules just as we have got our head around the last set of them.

🎯The target this time: emojis.

Here’s how to make sense of them (or at least try to)

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telegraph.co.uk/women/life/smi…
There’s bad news if you’re over 30 and believe your habit of sprinkling communications with emoji confetti would somehow make you seem cooler, younger, more in touch...

❌You thought you understood the game - but Gen Z have only gone and declared war

Here's the ones to avoid👇
🙂The smiley face

The one you thought was untouchable; that could never come to signify a male appendage without you realising.

A smiley face emoji deployed in a text or email can come across as patronising or passive-aggressive to teens and 20-somethings
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11 Aug
💳Under what circumstances is it unreasonable to split a bill in a restaurant?

@MrGuyKelly considers some quandaries...👇
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1⃣If you didn’t drink

🍹If everyone else had cocktails, wine, shots, then bought the waiting staff a Limoncello...

...but all you had was a sparkling water and some fresh mint tea, you have a right to feel aggrieved
💰Guy says the solution could be to split it evenly, but only if the drinkers’ total is within £5 of yours. If more, kick up a fuss

Do you agree?
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10 Aug
🔴The Delta variant has wrecked hopes of herd immunity, warn scientists.

Experts tell MPs there is no way of stopping Covid spreading through the entire population, as they call for an end to mass testing.

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✋Scientists say it's time to accept that there was no way of stopping the virus spreading through the entire population, and monitoring people with mild symptoms was no longer helpful
💉Prof Pollard, who led the Oxford vaccine team, said it was clear that the delta variant can infect people who have been vaccinated.

Which made herd immunity impossible to reach.

🇩🇪It comes as Germany announce the end of free testing, with the provision set to stop from Oct 11
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