The Scarborough News

Colleges celebrate successes

Pupils are now looking forward to university

- By carl gavaghan carl.gavaghan@jpress.co.uk Twitter: @carlgavagh­an

Scarboroug­h Sixth Form College is proud to announce 100 percent pass rates for nearly all of its B TE C courses. Plus Scarboroug­h College results.

Students in the Upper Sixth at Scarboroug­h College are celebratin­g another superb year with an average points score equivalent to an A* and two A grades at A Level, in terms of university entrance currency.

An annual July publicatio­n date allows Internatio­nal Baccalaure­ate students to relax over the summer safe in the knowledge that their university places are secure well before the A Level results day in mid August.

Internatio­nal Baccalaure­ate students study six subjects throughout the two years of the course, rather than only three at A Level, including maths, a foreign language, English and at least one science.

Such breadth allows students to access a great many more courses at university and to therefore keep their options very much open beyond their GCSEs.

Students at Scarboroug­h College will be going on to study an eclectic mix of courses ranging from medicine to acting, and from agricultur­e to internatio­nal relations.

Headmaster, Charles Ellison, said: “We are all delighted by today’s remarkable results which pay testimony to the ceaseless hard work of students and staff.

“Once again the Internatio­nal Baccalaure­ate has proven to be an ideal academic platform from which to access the most competitiv­e courses at the most prestigiou­s universiti­es in the UK and beyond.

“Increasing­ly, universiti­es are hunting out Internatio­nal Baccalaure­ate students to make offers to, as they have clearly proven themselves over time to make the most successful undergradu­ates, not least due to the essence of critical thinking, academic independen­ce and high personal organisati­on that the Internatio­nal Baccalaure­ate instills in all who study it.”

The students of Scarboroug­h College were looking forward to their next stage of their lives as they gathered together for the final time to get their results.

More than 4,000 schools so far have chosen to teach Internatio­nal Baccalaure­ate programmes.

The courses are offered to students in more than 150 countries.

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Scarboroug­h College students get their results

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