Originally Posted by spike7451

Originally Posted by LondonTankie

Huzzah for the Norn Iron!

I 'tink you'll find students from Norn Iron did better overall than England & Wales;

Northern Ireland's A level students are celebrating tonight. It's the best ever showing by local pupils and they again outperformed their contemporaries in England and Wales.

Only because the Geordies are dragging the average down. :D

Originally Posted by Cuddles

I think it ill behoves the English to mock the Scottish education system...especially on a day when Paxman has got all our backs up by criticising the great Rabbie Burns himself!

That being "great" in the lesser-used sense of "in the absence of any serious competition"? Despite the superior education system.

Originally Posted by Cuddles

I think it ill behoves the English to mock the Scottish education system...especially on a day when Paxman has got all our backs up by criticising the great Rabbie Burns himself!

you mean that limerick writing, tax collecting, failed farmer? Without a jot of irony, he can be called your national poet.

Originally Posted by JustLoitering

Originally Posted by spike7451

Originally Posted by LondonTankie

Huzzah for the Norn Iron!

I 'tink you'll find students from Norn Iron did better overall than England & Wales;

Northern Ireland's A level students are celebrating tonight. It's the best ever showing by local pupils and they again outperformed their contemporaries in England and Wales.

Only because the Geordies are dragging the average down. :D

North East Tonight reported last night that one school in Geordie-f*ckwitshire only had 24 students pass their A levels this year. I was frankly f*cking amazed.

I didn't think that there were 24 drug free teenagers in Newcastle.

(maybe they were Polish)

Where did you get the idea that being drug-free is necessary to pass A-Levels?

It's actually official that Scousers are the thickest, tussling with Hull for the Dunce's Corner:

Local authorities

The overall best performance among local authority schools this year was in Sutton, with 65% getting the English and maths benchmark, average points of 425.5 and a CVA score of 1002.3.

Bottom was Knowsley on 26.5%, average points 336.9 and a CVA of 1003.8.

Last year's worst, Hull, was just above it on 30%, 341.1 points and a CVA 987.1.

On the CVA measure, top was Waltham Forest on 1017.9.

Bottom was Richmond-upon-Thames on 982.5.

At A/AS-level the best was Herefordshire on 863.2 average points per student, the worst was Knowsley again, on 532.0.

Source: BBC

Hull must be the thickest lot in the country as they keep voting Prescott into parliament.

That tw@t with the odd accent who talks on C4 is a mackem.

I have lived in the land of the Broon for 15 years now, lovely people but they don't have an IQ, they have a low one.

okay okay HH stay away from the silvery lure.....oh b***ocks i'm hooked................in reality the only reason why southerners looked so good in the A-level results was because it was all those foreign kids who took the exams. The Mmmmlarring English southerners weren't clever enough to even write their names on the paper. It was the Polish that saved them again

Originally Posted by LondonTankie

Originally Posted by spike7451

Originally Posted by LondonTankie

Huzzah for the Norn Iron!

I 'tink you'll find students from Norn Iron did better overall than England & Wales;

Northern Ireland's A level students are celebrating tonight. It's the best ever showing by local pupils and they again outperformed their contemporaries in England and Wales.

hmm.. well thank god i didnt take them. best of luck to the paddies

Until our minister for education fucks it up in the next few years with the implementation of her grand plan. Mind you we could get round a comprehensive system by sending our brightest to grammar schools over the border. Just like her kids....

Originally Posted by arby

Was it ever up for debate? If you're north of Birmingham you are only fit for the most basic of tasks, breathing, swallowing and the like.

So your Mum and sister are from north of Birmingham then?