“It has been amazing,” one T-level student on a work placement with Morgan Sindall says. “I’ve been enjoying it more than college,” says another.

This is the first cohort of students to complete their courses and take the new exams, and they have now got some impressive results. Of the 207 candidates who took the design, surveying and planning for construction T-level, 93.7% of them passed.

Seven (3.4%) got the highest mark, a distinction star, while 67 (32.4%) got distinctions, 100 (48.3%) a merit and 20 (9.7%) were awarded a pass. Five males and two females were awarded the distinction stars, while 54 males and 13 females achieved distinctions, 96 males and four females got merits and 19 males and one female passed.

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