Swansea College is celebrating an overall 98% pass rate at A Level.
This year there were 628 separate exam entries. At A level, the overall pass rate was 98%, with 75% of these passes being at the higher grades of A*-C. The overall pass rate at AS level was 92%, a 5% rise on 2009, with 56% of those passes being grades A-C.
Individual successes include:
Claudia Evans, who hopes to use her qualifications in English, Welsh, Photography and Art/Design to progress onto a degree in English with Professional Welsh before pursuing a career in art or translation.
Helen Adams, who was self-taught and, to some extent, home tutored from the age of 10. Her transition to college has been highly impressive and, in a short time, she has achieved considerable success in Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry and Physics.
Rhodri Plumb, who switched to college halfway through his A Levels programme and is now planning on university after achieving success in his Chemistry, Electronics and Maths exams.
Fern Davies, who has combined academic achievement in Business Studies, Psychology, PE and English with a burgeoning swimming career. Fern is part of the Welsh swimming squad, which involves a considerable training schedule and regular competition at International level.
Today is an especially significant occasion as it’s the last time that either Swansea College or Gorseinon College will release their individual A and AS level results. From 20th August, they will merge to form Gower College Swansea.
“Gower College Swansea will be an even stronger organisation than its predecessors,” says Principal and Chief Executive Nick Bennett. “It will retain their best features and be an integral part of a new, coherent post-14 curriculum offer for the Swansea area. The merger has been a long time coming, but now staff and students are looking forward to playing their part in this exciting new era in Further Education.”
