Exam board officials attributed the improvement in the proportion gaining an A* to it becoming a "key grade for the highest-performing students" looking to get into top universities, with both teachers and pupils making deliberate efforts to reach it, helped by the end to exams being taken in January, allowing more teaching time.
In Kenya, for example, the "Let's Go to School" campaign is an innovative way of actively involving pupils in an effort to make sure all children in their communities go to school.
Costessey was reinspected in February 2005, when the efforts of pupils, staff, parents and governors were recognised in the report that followed.
The report published by the 2020health thinktank, titled Careless Eating Costs Lives, says some chip shops, kebab houses and chicken joints should be closed as the temptation they pose for pupils is damaging schools' efforts to promote healthy eating.
It spawned a number of parodies, with one notable example being this effort from pupils at Eton.
Dame Kelly Holmes has praised Manx school pupils for making an effort to learn more about the competing nations at the Commonwealth Youth Games.
The pupils enjoyed, and put effort into, activities they felt competent in.
Mr Rahman, who helps teach children about Islam at his son's school, welcomed teachers' efforts to help pupils understand the religion.
The trend follows sustained government efforts to encourage pupils to study the more traditional, core academic courses, often termed "facilitating subjects", which are favoured by elite Russell Group universities.
The ceremony will recognise the efforts of 160 pupils taking vocational qualifications in the UK's first two newly established university technical colleges for 14 to 18-year-olds: the Black Country UTC in Walsall and the JCB Academy in Rocester, Staffordshire.
