A-levels

When James Lockwood finished his A-levels in maths, physics and design, he took a gap year to work and travel, and secured a job as a trainee designer working on architectural drawings.

Clearing 2011: What you could do if you don't get your preferred place 2011

So when I got my A-levels, I decided to take a gap year to get more experience in social care.

Clearing 2011: What you could do if you don't get your preferred place 2011

Ministers want teenagers to have better information when choosing A-levels by asking universities to publish the qualifications of previously successful applicants.

'Naming and shaming' for degrees with poor jobs record 2011

Willetts said: "Ucas are operating a massive system with more than half a million applications, but they need to signal the importance of some A-levels more than others and that message is often hidden behind a tariff point model."

Bright, poor students 'will be held back' under new A-level rules 2011

As part of the changes, English universities will, from next year, have an 8% cut to the number of places they offer to students achieving less than two As and a B in their A-levels.

A-level results: gap may have widened between state and private 2011

The more general point about "soft" A-levels is a non-runner.

Meeja studies Norfolk Blogger 2009

Then there's the mystery of David Cameron's three A-levels: History, History of Art and Economics and Politics (that last one notoriously misses out the hard bits of the two substantive topics).

Meeja studies Norfolk Blogger 2009

I'm hoping to get my A-levels done by then and if I have to retake any of them I'll do that in June or go back to school the following year.

Tom Daley to leave school early and concentrate on London 2012 2011

Many would say that Mathematics is a traditional and solid subject - but for me it was the easiest by far of my four A-levels.

Meeja studies Norfolk Blogger 2009

The Higher Education Policy Institute thinktank was reporting as the minister for universities and science, David Willetts, said that pupils who have taken "traditional" A-levels such as maths and foreign languages should take precedence in the race for university places.

Bright, poor students 'will be held back' under new A-level rules 2011