ISC Daily News Summary

This year's A-level results show 25.5% of students achieved an A grade or higher, the lowest figure since 2007 when it was 25.3%. By Katherine Sellgren and Hannah Richardson, BBC News.

Tes reports on subject entries, highlighting how girls accounted for 50.3 per cent of entries in biology, chemistry and physics this year, overtaking boys for the first time. By Will Hazell.

Schools Week reports Spanish has overtaken French as the most popular modern foreign language for the first time. By Pippa Allen-Kinross.

Daily Mail features pictures of students receiving their A-level results. A number of pupils from ISC schools are photographed.

The Independent features live updates with pupils' results across the country.

The details of A-level grade boundaries set by the Edexcel and OCR exam boards were leaked on social media yesterday, a day before the results were published. The Telegraph highlights how students need just 54 per cent to achieve a grade A in OCR A-level maths. By Camilla Turner. Barnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council, is quoted.

Yvonne Williams, head of English and drama at a school in the south of England, writes an open letter to students receiving their results today, encouraging them to focus on the skills and knowledge they have gained throughout their A-levels. Tes.

In a letter to The Telegraph, Shaun Fenton, head of Reigate Grammar School and chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, responds to reports about Oxbridge governors in independent schools. He highlights the governance partnerships taking place between state and independent schools, adding, 'we need to stop obsessing about Oxbridge'. The letter can be found half-way down the page.

Dave Griffiths and Jennifer M Ferguson, academics from the University of Stirling, argue integrating independent schools into the state system could worsen existing inequalities, and call on policymakers to address the disparities between state schools. The Conversation.

Writing in The Telegraph, Jo Johnson, the universities minister, warns against universities offering unconditional places "simply to get more students through the door".

According to a report from the Department for Education, 60% of eligible students were not aware of Disabled Student Allowances, a form of financial support that can make university more accessible to those with additional needs. By Beth Rose, BBC News.