With 72 World Prizes awarded at the Pearson Edexcel High Achievers’ Award Ceremony 2017 –

The Annual Edexcel High Achievers’ Award Ceremony was held on 20th November, 2017 at the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapakse Theatre amongst a distinguished gathering including foreign delegates from Pearson Edexcel and the British Council. Rod Bristow – President UK & Core Markets, Pearson graced the Ceremony as the Chief Guest while Sunil Hettiarachchi, Secretary to the Minister of Education was the Guest of Honour. Gill Caldicott – Country Director of British Council, and Harish Doraiswamy – Vice President – Qualifications, Pearson were also among the distinguished special guests.

302 award winners from Private and International schools around Sri Lanka who excelled at their Edexcel PLSC, International GCSE/GCSE and Advanced Level examinations received awards at this event. Continuing to bring honour to Sri Lanka, students secured 72 World Prizes in almost all subjects offered at these examinations. Instead of sitting for the traditionally accepted number of subjects, students had confidently attempted a variety of extra subjects and were recognised for 12 A* grades at Edexcel International GCSE and 5A* grades at Edexcel Advanced Level. Students from Asian International School, Belvoir College, Bishop’s College, Burhani Serendib School, Colombo International School, Elizabeth Moir, Gateway College, Harcourts international School, Ladies’ College, M. D. Gunasena International School, Museaus College St. Peter’s College and S. Thomas’ College were among the top award winners!

It was also evident that the comprehensive and flexible Edexcel curriculum is well received by the most prestigious universities worldwide. Most of the candidates had secured places in top Universities such as Imperial College - UK, University of Deakin - UK University of Cambridge – UK Birmingham University - UK University of London – UK University of Warwick – UK University of Pennsylvania - USA National University of Singapore University of Alberta – Canada University of Water Loo - Canada University of Toronto - Canada Monash University - Malaysia University of South Australia University of Sydney - Australia University of Western Australia University of New South Wales - Australia University of Melbourne - Australia.