§ Mr. Colvinasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the number of students obtaining a GCE O-level A, B and C grades and CSE grades 1, 2 and 3 in the examinations at the end of the last educational ear; and what percentage this was of total school leavers.
§ Mr. William SheltonThe number of English school leavers in 1979–80 who had obtained one or more O-level grades A, B, or C was 323,200. A further 66,300 had obtained CSE grade 1 and 268,500 had one or more O-level grades D or E or CSE grades 2 to 5. These represented 43 per cent., 9 per cent., and 36 per cent. Of all sxhool leavers respectively.