THE Queen’s granddaughter Lady Louise Windsor is to attend St Andrews University to study English, after receiving her A-level results, Buckingham Palace said.
Lady Louise – the 18-year-old daughter of the Earl and Countess of Wessex – will start her degree course in September.
She follows in the footsteps of the Earl and Countess of Strathearn, who met at the university in Fife, Scotland, where Kate was studying history of art and William geography.
Buckingham Palace has not revealed Louise’s results, but St Andrews is one of the country’s top universities, with standard entry grades set at AAA and minimum entry grades of ABB for the English MA.
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A Palace spokesman said: “Having received her A-level results today, Lady Louise will start at St Andrews University in September to study English.”
Louise has bucked a trend by opting for English, after English literature fell out of the 10 most popular subjects at A-level for the first time.
It saw the biggest drop in candidates for a single subject with more than 1,000 entries, falling by 9.4% from 39,492 in 2021 to 35,791 this year.
Elsewhere, concerns have been raised that working class students may be locked out of arts and humanities subjects, following a planned crackdown on courses considered “low value” by the UK Government.
According to proposed plans, universities could face penalties if less than 75% of undergraduates finish their courses and under 60% are pursuing further study or in professional jobs 15 months after graduating.
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On the proposed crackdown, Dr Grady previously said: “The decision is bad news for both the staff whose jobs will be threatened by these cuts and for current and future students, many of them local to the region, who will see their education choices limited and be denied the opportunity to access higher education.
“The universities most vulnerable are those with a higher number of less well-off students and it is unconscionable to deny them the chance to study subjects like literature, art, drama and music.”
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