A charity is calling for expensive school uniforms to be dropped in favour of plain clothes and a badge. Family Action says parents are being forced to spend hundreds of pounds kitting out their children for the new school year. The charity’s Big Stitch-Up report found the average annual back-to-school cost, including uniforms, coats, bags and stationery, is now £156 for a child at primary school and £285 for a child at secondary school.
The proportion of A-levels awarded top grades has dropped for the second year in a row. The BBC reports that 26.3 per cent of students were given A or A* grades, down on the 2012 figure of 26.6 per cent. The national breakdown of results for 300,000 students receiving their results today shows the overall pass rate rose slightly to 98.1 per cent.
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