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The proportion of attractive teenage girls receiving A-level results in news reports reached 96%, the highest level since records began #ALevelResults #Alevelresultsday

The proportion of attractive teenage girls receiving A-level results in news reports reached 96%, the highest level since records began #ALevelResults #Alevelresultsday

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The proportion of attractive teenage girls receiving A-level results in news reports reached 96%, the highest level since records began.

Despite a flurry of television and newspaper images of jubilant pupils checking wall charts and hugging their classmates, only a tiny handful showed pockmarked pasty boys with bad glasses, or fat girls with frizzy hair, and these were mainly kept at a safe distance from the camera, mercifully obscured by a willowy blonde waving an envelope.

The increasing proportion of photogenic female A-level students in news has drawn some criticism from educational groups concerned that standards are falling.

"You need to be studious and bespectacled, often with bad posture and pale skin, to do a hard subject like Chemistry, " says Dr Lauren Sue-Ellen Bowen of the Bossert Institute who has a big forehead.

"But any flaxen haired bimbo can get an A-level in media studies and be seen smiling winningly on the six o'clock news. Clever people are supposed to be a bit wonky in the face. This is dumbing down, pure and simple"

Despite these concerns, education chiefs and picture editors are predicting the trend will continue.

"Next year, I guarantee it, " says Daily Express picture editor Ron Dribble. "The A-level results spread will look like sodding Hollyoaks. Get in. "

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Taken on: August 20, 2009

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