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- London pulls further ahead as A-level regional divide for top grades hits record – as it happened August 13, 2026This year’s results expose a widening gap in students achieving top grades in London and north-east EnglandFor international students, 53,740 applicants have been accepted on to undergraduate courses – up by 2% on the 52,640 who were successful last year.Accepted applicants from China rose to 13,870 from 12,380 last year.People have been worried, particularly about […]Tom Ambrose (now) and Mabel Banfield-Nwachi (earlier)
- ‘I’m going for a few pints now’: nerves and joy as students collect their A-level results August 13, 2026For sixth formers in Halifax, discovering their grades means a chance to celebrate and plan for the futureThere are few days that teenagers dread more than A-level results day, where students learn how the last two years of their lives will shape their futures, communicated through a few letters in an envelope.The tension of walking […]Raphael Boyd
- Students set new records for A-level grades in bumper year August 13, 2026Northern Ireland best performing with 30.7% of grades being As and A*s but Wales and England close behindA-level results – latest updatesSixth-formers have basked in a summer of record-breaking exam results in academic and vocational subjects, allowing more than a quarter of a million 18-year-olds to go on to higher education.The proportion of students in […]Richard Adams and Sally Weale
- Jason Arday is now the stick the right will use to beat back racial equality. Don’t let that happen | Afua Hirsch August 13, 2026The UK is far from equality in academia or society. You don’t need a Cambridge degree to see that Arday’s story is being used to stop any progress in its tracksIn 1987, a college at the University of Cambridge considered offering a prestigious position to a black man in what would be the first appointment […]Afua Hirsch
- Cambridge agrees to hold independent inquiry into Jason Arday appointment August 12, 2026Vice-chancellor Deborah Prentice says she recognises the ‘difficult case’ has damaged the universityCambridge University’s leadership has bowed to internal pressure for an independent investigation into its appointment of Jason Arday as a professor, with its vice-chancellor admitting the affair has damaged the institution.Prof Deborah Prentice said she recognised the “anger and anxiety around this damaging […]Richard Adams Education editor
- ‘Always cracking jokes’: questions raised over Jason Arday’s claim he was non-verbal as a child August 12, 2026Fellow pupils at his primary school have challenged Cambridge academic’s story, though others support itThe story of Jason Arday’s extraordinary rise to becoming the youngest black professor in the history of the University of Cambridge is all the more remarkable for one claim: that he did not learn to speak until just shy of his […]Lanre Bakare, Aamna Mohdin and Sammy Gecsoyler
- Jason Arday’s life may be a warped fantasy. But so is this conversation around DEI August 12, 2026Cambridge’s youngest Black professor has resigned. But the discourse around his departure is rooted in its own distorted reality• Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereFew stories have dominated discourse and headlines like that of Jason Arday. The University of Cambridge professor, now resigned, was accused of plagiarism, and appears […]Nesrine Malik
- University of Cambridge whistleblower who reported alleged bullying wins employment tribunal August 11, 2026Prof Wyn Evans, who raised concerns over treatment of female staff at Institute of Astronomy, was subject to ‘baseless’ investigation, judge rulesA University of Cambridge whistleblower who alleged bullying of female staff inside the university’s Institute of Astronomy has won a tribunal against his employer.Prof Wyn Evans told a tribunal hearing in June that the […]Daisy Ayliffe
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