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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Automotive
- Daily Mail
Moment tired Gen Z engineering students say they are 'going back to BED' instead of celebrating their grades
For many opening up their A Level results, it's a day of excitement and celebration, but it seems some sleepy students had other plans. Despite their impressive marks and places to study mechanical engineering at college, Jack and Leyton had only one thing on their mind - going back to bed. The two City of Liverpool College students confessed that they were 'dead happy' with their Distinction marks but that they couldn't wait to get sme extra sleep, adding they were 'too tired for this'. Leyton and Jack, who were in the same class at the college in Liverpool's city centre, plan to enrol in the second year or their engineering course and look at apprenticeships linked to motorsports. Jack revealed he wanted to move in to the motorsports side of engineering and added that with his good results he thought he had a chance of earning a comfortable salary. But he revealed he had no immediate plans to celebrate and instead wanted to catch up on sleep. He told the BBC: 'I'm going back to bed, I'm too tired for this.' His friend Leyton revealed he was nervous opening up his results but was pleased with them and was excited for future opportunities. He said: 'It was nerve wracking when I got up, but I opened that sheet of paper and I was dead happy.' He added: 'So much hard work but it's paid off. So many late nights doing coursework. We are going to enrol in second year and then start looking at apprenticeships. There's so many opportunities in the engineering field, there's no shortage of work.' When asked how he would be celebrating, Leyton said he didn't have any plans, saying he was 'just going to go home and chill'. It comes as students and teachers celebrate a bumper year for A-level results following depressed grades during the pandemic years. Across all regions, 28.3 per cent of pupils got A/A* this year, compared with 27.8 per cent last year, and 25.4 per cent in 2019. Outside of the Covid years of 2020-2022, when grades were vastly inflated due to teacher assessment, this is the highest proportion on record. In addition, 9.4 per cent of entries got A* grades this year – almost 1 in 10 – up from 9.3 per cent last year and 7.7 per cent in 2019 – making this also a non-pandemic record. The top results meant a record 439,180 were accepted onto degree courses, up 3.1 per cent on the same point last year. Ofqual said this morning results are 'stable' and suggested any changes could be due to the fact that this year students are cleverer. This is due to them being the first cohort since the pandemic to have GCSE grading returned to normal – so harder – putting less able students off taking A-levels. And the overall pass rate – the proportion of entries graded A* to E – has also risen to 97.5 per cent this year, which is up on last year (97.2 per cent) and the pre-pandemic year of 2019 (97.6 per cent), with boys outperforming girls for the first time in seven years.
Yahoo
04-08-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
German engineering orders fall 5% in June on tariff uncertainty
BERLIN (Reuters) -German engineering orders fell 5% in June compared with a year earlier, with dips in both domestic and foreign demand reflecting uncertainty caused by trade tensions, engineering association VDMA said on Monday. Domestic and foreign orders both decreased by 5% in June, with a 16% surge in demand from euro zone countries offset by a 13% fall from outside the currency bloc, the VDMA said in a statement. In the April-to-June quarter, orders fell 2%, primarily due to the tariff dispute between the United States and the EU, said the VDMA. "It is not yet possible to estimate what impact the now planned 15% tariff on imports into the U.S. will have on mechanical engineering," VDMA chief economist Johannes Gernandt said of the trade deal that was agreed late last month. "At least companies now planning security, albeit at a high cost - if the 'deal' holds," added Gernandt. The first six months of the year, by contrast, had seen a slight increase in real terms of 1%, which Gernandt attributed to rising demand from countries within the euro zone. This is "likely a positive sign that Europe is truly strengthening its position as a business location," he added. CHANGE JUNE overall -5% y/y of which German -5% y/y foreign -5% y/y -2% y/y APRIL TO JUNE of which German -2% y/y foreign -1% y/y Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Reuters
04-08-2025
- Business
- Reuters
German engineering orders fall 5% in June on tariff uncertainty
BERLIN, Aug 4 (Reuters) - German engineering orders fell 5% in June compared with a year earlier, with dips in both domestic and foreign demand reflecting uncertainty caused by trade tensions, engineering association VDMA said on Monday. Domestic and foreign orders both decreased by 5% in June, with a 16% surge in demand from euro zone countries offset by a 13% fall from outside the currency bloc, the VDMA said in a statement. In the April-to-June quarter, orders fell 2%, primarily due to the tariff dispute between the United States and the EU, said the VDMA. "It is not yet possible to estimate what impact the now planned 15% tariff on imports into the U.S. will have on mechanical engineering," VDMA chief economist Johannes Gernandt said of the trade deal that was agreed late last month. "At least companies now planning security, albeit at a high cost - if the 'deal' holds," added Gernandt. The first six months of the year, by contrast, had seen a slight increase in real terms of 1%, which Gernandt attributed to rising demand from countries within the euro zone. This is "likely a positive sign that Europe is truly strengthening its position as a business location," he added.
