MOLODETS! OTLICHNO; (That's Russian for Well Done, Love FOUR YEARS AGO, ANA COULDN'T SPEAK A WORD OF ENGLISH. TODAY, SHE'S PASSED 11 GCSEs WITH SIX OF THEM AT 'A' GRADE
Byline: By JANE WOODHEAD Education Reporter
THE number of Merseyside students scoring top GCSE grades rose again this year.
Knowsley saw a huge improvement in grade A to C passes, with 72% in some schools.
At St Edmund Arrowsmith RC high school in Whiston, the most improved in the borough, the number of children with five or more A to C passes, rose from 53% last year to 72%.
In St Helens, the overall pass rate rose by 7%.
The overall percentage improvement in Wirral, Liverpool and Sefton was unconfirmed but education officials were confident of a significant increase.
Nationally the continuing rise in top grades has again led …
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Article title: MOLODETS! OTLICHNO; (That's Russian for Well Done, Love FOUR YEARS AGO, ANA COULDN'T SPEAK A WORD OF ENGLISH. TODAY, SHE'S PASSED 11 GCSEs WITH SIX OF THEM AT 'A' GRADE.
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Newspaper title: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England).
Publication date: August 25, 2005.
Page number: 3.
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