AS the national debate over A-level grading continues, students from Tavistock College who this year achieved record pass rates for their exams are set to start a wide variety of courses at universities throughout the country.
Five students won places at Cambridge University, with large numbers being accepted onto first-rate degree courses in the face of stiff competition for places.
Michael Ellis and Iain Johnson go to Cambridge to read natural sciences, Sarah Tebbs will read theology and religious studies and Alice Berry and Robert Jones will read engineering and history respectively.
Some of the more unusual courses being studied by former Tavistock College students this year include physics with Australian studies read by James Coghill at Exeter University; sound and video technology read by Stephen Hoare at Salford; Chinese studied by Tamsyn Gillan at Sheffield and Chinese with politics read by Eleanor Browne at Durham.
College principal John Simes said: ?This hasn?t been the easiest of years for our A-level students but so many of our young people going on to such excellent courses and universities simply reflects their commitment and hard work and the high quality of teaching they have received at Tavistock College.
?We wish them every success in their studies.?