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A-level results reflect widening gap between rich and poor during pandemic, experts warn
Northern students fall further behind those in London and south-east England
Students at Ark Acton Academy in Acton, west London, receive their A-level results, August 17, 2023
THIS year's A-level results reveal the widening gap between the least and most well-off young people during the pandemic, experts, teaching unions and Labour warned today.
In the first year since the return to pre-pandemic marking, the disparities between those accepted into university are now at levels last seen a decade ago.
Students in the north fell further behind those in London and south-east England and the grade gap between private and comprehensive also grew compared with 2019.
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