It's 8 o'clock and all around the country school gates are opening to welcome the keenest of this year's A-level students to pick up their results. I'm at the press conference run by the exam boards now, ploughing through several thousand statistics to find out whether results, as is expected, have really improved. You'll be able to read the first reports at 9.30am.
After that we'll have full analysis of the results and all the political reaction. The esteemed educationalist Ted Wragg is writing for us on whether the changes in A-level results really are the end of civilisation as we know it; we have an A-level student comparing English papers from the last 30 years and you'll be able to peruse the results tables as soon as we can get several megabytes of data uploaded.
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And in case we forget in the midst of the political fallout of A-levels that it's really about 265,000 students working their hearts out for two years (or not), we'll be condensing those feelgood stories about six-year old geniuses and triplets bound for Cambridge, as well as following results day at our local college, City and Islington, with a picture gallery. Ahhh.
