Students are top of the form

Date published: 15 August 2014


SUPER students at Oldham Sixth Form College (OSFC) have been celebrating great grades.

The overall pass rate for all advanced courses this summer was 99 per cent and 35 A-level subjects achieved a 100 per cent pass rate.

Chadderton’s Louise Harris was thrilled with 2A*s in chemistry and maths as well as As in French and physics. She will study chemical engineering at Manchester and spend a year in France.

“My hard work obviously paid off,” she laughed, as she collected her results.

Joining her on the same course is Elliott Barrott from Royton, who was stunned with his A*s in chemistry and biology and an A in maths.

“I was just hoping I’d get 3As to get on the course. I just told my mum and she’s over the moon!”

Beaming Matthew William of Springhead, gained 3A*s — in maths, physics and chemistry — and is off to Lancaster to study maths.

“Lancaster emailed me to say I had got a place so I knew I’d got 3As at least!” he said.

And it’s off to Manchester to study law for Ikra Shoaib who got an A* in psychology and As in law and sociology.

Jayne Clarke, college principal, said her students should be very proud of their results.

“In the context of the well-documented greater challenge in A-levels to have held our strong position and seen an increase in the very highest of grades is really outstanding,” she said.

“We are equally proud of the fact that we support a very broad range of students, including those with more modest starting points, making these outcomes all the more impressive.

“I wish all of our students the very best for their next steps and their future careers.”