Academic
The school consistently has amongst the best public examination results in Devon and has become a candidate school which, as of academic year 2009-2011, will offer the International Baccalaureate as a sixth form examination option in addition to A levels.
The school has also performed well at national academic competitions; winning the UK Mathematics Trust and the Further Maths Network "Mathematics Challenge", finishing as runners up in the national quiz championship for schools and finishing third in the Ogden Trust National Schools Business Competition, to name but a few.
Nearly every student from the school goes on to study at university, with between ten and twenty students going to Oxford or Cambridge each year. The school has been ranked amongst the top 10 boys' schools of its type in the UK for some years.
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Famous quotes containing the word academic:
“I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)
“You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn’t kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)