Yahoo News – Mihaela Rodina
Only 45 percent of pupils managed to get the A-level diploma required for university admission — down from 69.3 percent last year and 81.4 percent in 2009, the education ministry said. Described as a “disaster” by the media, the figures revealed that 20 schools could not boast a single 12th-grader among the 90,765 who passed the exam out of some 200,000 who took it nationally.”(more)