Students are anxiously awaiting their GCSE and BTEC grades.

 On Thursday, students in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland will receive their Level 2 GCSE, BTec Tech Awards, and other results.


 After years of change during the Covid pandemic, the GCSE pass rate is expected to be roughly the same by 2024. Last year, it fell for a third year running.

 Students have also been warned they could face more competition for places at sixth form colleges this year.


 

Bill Watkin, head of the Sixth Form Colleges Association, said there were more 16-year-olds in the population and sixth form colleges had grown in popularity.


 "Almost certainly going to have to turn some young people away because they are oversubscribed," he said, 

adding that others were "almost certainly going to have to turn some young people away because they are oversubscribed."

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