Why All The Fuss About Exam Results On Tv And The Media?

[dave50]

And all this news is solely linked to university admissions as if there are no other options for students other than university. Why is there hardly any mention
about other opportunities such as apprenticeships in this news coverage?

[douglas9401]

I think TV news editors just like schoolies.

[ToraToraTora]

It's primarily to remind us old farts that the exams of today are so much easier and these kids tend to leave school and later university barely numerate and literate.

[smurfchops]

Who cares what results they get, except them and their parents and teachers. Never used to be in the news like this.

[jno]

it's been this way longer than I can remember. The Telegraph will doubtless use a photo of comely schoolgirls leaping in the air waving their results, as they have since girls were first allowed into schools.

[Arksided]

A level were respected and thrived for back in my day. These days if you can spell your name correctly it’s an A distinction

[dave50]

When I was a lad it was never mentioned in the news, ever.

[Gromit]

I tried to book an haircut and my barber has taken today off because his kid gets his exam results today. Tried to reschedule for next Thursday, and his other kid gets their results then - and he is off again.

[youngmafbog]

Obviously not a Turk then, round here they seem to work dawn to dusk and every day of the week. Rain or shine.

[ToraToraTora]

If there is one thing you can get round here it's a barnet trim!

[Peter Pedant]

because they are a crap alternative - chrissakes.

1985 - they got a few hopeful to delay opening their results, until the cameras got there, so see their expressions.

One glum teenager said " you get bad results and wreck the rest of your life...."

[Peter Pedant]

arkside - strive, strive

thrive is what babies dont do when they starve.... ( irreg past, throve)
AND
oh well in for a penny
shrive is an old world for the sacrament of confession and only is used now for 'well-shriven' ( confess before Lent) and Shrove Tuesday ( when you sent to confesh)

[Peter Pedant]

obviously not a Turk then
Turk-berk.....rhyming slang which infects these threads like - - - E Coli or Anthrax....
nope - Turk as in Turkish.

A levels measure being good at A levels ( SATs in the Land of the Free are said to be cram-resistant but I am not sure)
however it is the only measure ( or - -- - metric) we have.

Medicine - the prizes in the first two years are won by one set of bright young people,
and the prizes in the final three, are one by a completely differnt set ! - of which I was one: I was excessively good at telling Profs of Path what I cd see down a microscope....

didnt do me much good: two years at Porton Down, helped

[ToraToraTora]

gawd elp us, Aramis has chimed in!

[Old_Geezer]

Apprenticeships are what the majority should hope for, so it ain't really newsworthy. Plus since the misguided push to get all & sundry, whether appropriately intellectually gifted or not, off to Uni, the media has been enamoured with that.

I see on the news sites that the giveaway Covid period scores are possibly dropping back to normal. However how one can claim they usefully sort students' ability when so many score A or A+ is presumably beyond anyone's ken. Apparently almost everyone's a genius and a winner these days.

[Buenchico]

There is nothing wrong with apprenticeships, per se, (although I do have my doubts about some of them, where 'apprentices' are simply used as cheap labour and little else).

However over a quarter of a million young people decided two years ago (at the end of Year 11 at school) that they'd rather stay in formal education and work towards their A-levels. So, irrespective of whether those young people now wish to go on to university or not, toady is a very important day in the lives of over a quarter of a million families in this country. It therefore seems perfectly reasonable to me that matters relating to it are covered in the news.

[maggiebee]

Scotland's schools got their results weeks ago - pupils are now back at school. As usual, ignored again!

[MargoTester]

^ did Scotland report on England's A level results?

[maggiebee]

I've no idea MT, it's the media who do the reporting.

[MargoTester]

Sorry I thought you lived in Scotland from your remark that Scotland had been ignored again and was enquiring whether England's results were reported in Scotland that's all

[douglas9401]

Spiky.