STUDENTS and staff at Malvern College are celebrating after achieving record exam results.
Thirty-six pupils at the exclusive boarding school took the International Baccalaureate (IB) exams this summer instead of A-levels.
The alternative qualification offers students the chance to study a broader range of subjects at sixth form level. This year students achieved a 97 per cent pass rate with an average of 26.6 UCAS points.
"For people to measure these results against their A-level equivalent, this puts our IB pupils averaging between grades ABB and AAB," said the school's director of IB Rene Filho.
"It is our best result ever as far as UCAS points are concerned."
The school says that all its IB students hoping to go on to Oxford or Cambridge universities have achieved the necessary grades to take up their places.
The IB consists of three subjects at higher level and three at standard level.
Malvern College's headmaster Hugh Carson said pupils were encouraged to take either the IB or A-levels depending on which they felt would enable them to achieve their greatest potential.
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