Hundreds of thousands of students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their A-level exam results – with the number achieving A* grades up 0.4% from last year, to 9.3%, and the number of A*-A grades up 0.6% from last year, reaching 27.8%.
But years of underfunding have profoundly weakened the finances of the higher education sector, as struggling institutions cut jobs and close departments to stay afloat.
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