{"id":1147513,"date":"2026-08-14T05:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1147513\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T05:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:14:25","slug":"education-secretary-makes-grammatical-mistakes-in-statement-about-a-level-results-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1147513\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Secretary Makes Grammatical Mistakes in Statement About A-Level Results \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy Powell has put out a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LucyMPowell\/status\/2087929940310188522?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">graphic<\/a> on A-level results day celebrating the pupils now under her auspices. She said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to everyone getting their results today. You should be really proud of what you\u2019ve achieved and I wish you every success for the future. A big thank you to the teachers and families who have backed you every step of the way.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in students receiving T-Level results this year is very encouraging, as well as so many students progressing in to higher education. There is no single route to achieving your ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why we are opening doors with more high-quality opportunities for young people to fulfil their potential \u2013 whether that\u2019s through academic study, technical education or hands-on training for skilled work. Whatever path you choose, today is the start of an exciting future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One or two errors there:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cprogressing in to higher education\u201d should be \u201cto.\u201c<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe rise in students receiving T-Level results this year is very encouraging, as well as so many students progressing in to higher education.\u201d The \u201cas well as\u201d makes no sense, it should be \u201cas is the number of students.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The government calls them \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/number-of-t-level-pupils-hits-record-high-as-maths-a-levels-rise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T Levels<\/a>\u201d without a hyphen.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe rise in students.\u201d Guido hates to quibble, but it should be \u201cthe number of students.\u201d Room for improvement\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Powell did go to Oxford (before exiting). Was Jason Arday her tutor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucy Powell has put out a graphic on A-level results day celebrating the pupils now under her auspices.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1147514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[121739,51,253757,16,15],"class_list":["post-1147513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-a-levels","tag-business","tag-dfe","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117092159862742498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1147514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}