Highers

The kids who are not up to scratch in their Highers are the same kids who were sitting Standard Grades under the Labour/Lib Dem coalition.

Bad Education Jeff 2009

This year the list of qualifications has been broadened so that baccalaureates and ONCs/ONDs are accepted alongside A-levels, Scottish Highers and their equivalents.h Career prospectsThe employability of graduates is assessed by looking at the proportion of graduates who find graduate-level employment, or study full-time, within six months of graduation.

Guardian University Guide 2012: methodology 2011

Physical humans are one of three types: Highers use biononic upgrades to augment their lives and give them special abilities; Advancers rely on genetic modification to do the job; and Naturals lack any but the most essential augmentations.

REVIEW: The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton 2008

I found out about a course in journalism, but you needed four Highers to get on to it.

The Woman I Was Born to Be Susan Boyle 2010

Motherwell College (soon to be moving to a new campus on the site of the old Ravenscraig steel mill) is going to offer students the chance to study for the International Baccalaureate, rather than Scottish Highers.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

(Indeed, fewer than 150 schools across Britain offer the IB at present, though that number will grow as A-Levels and Highers continue t lose their value.)

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

The next step, of course, will be persuading teachers across Lanarkshire that they should embrace this opportunity and push those students most likely to benefit from the IB to consider taking it, not Highers.

Exams good enough for the rich are good enough for the poor too 2009

The next step, of course, will be persuading teachers across Lanarkshire that they should embrace this opportunity and push those students most likely to benefit from the IB to consider taking it, not Highers.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

(Indeed, fewer than 150 schools across Britain offer the IB at present, though that number will grow as A-Levels and Highers continue t lose their value.)

Exams good enough for the rich are good enough for the poor too 2009

Motherwell College (soon to be moving to a new campus on the site of the old Ravenscraig steel mill) is going to offer students the chance to study for the International Baccalaureate, rather than Scottish Highers.

Exams good enough for the rich are good enough for the poor too 2009