A-level results Wales 2023: Live updates, grade boundaries, reaction and celebrations

Teenagers across Wales collect their A-level results today knowing they face the double pressures of grades being lower amid tougher competition for university places.

Results will be lower overall than 2022 but higher than the last pre-Covid exam year in 2019 as exam regulator Qualifications Wales calibrates the system back to more normality after record grades under teacher assessment.

But while results overall will be higher than pre-Covid, they are still expected to go up or down in some subjects. And there have been warnings that those who don’t get the exam grades they need may find it harder to get university places.

Changes in the population mean there are more 18 year-olds this year, some universities have less places available after expansion during the pandemic and some are giving more places to international students, who pay higher tuition fees.

Last week one in five some top universities had just a handful of courses available through Clearing – which matches applicants to university places yet to be filled – last week, while others have no vacancies listed. One in five 18-year-olds from Wales who applied to start university in September had also not yet had an offer as of last week.

One expert has described the UK A-level class of 2023 as “in many ways the unluckiest cohort of students coming out of the pandemic”.

We'll bring you all the A level results for Wales as they are announced and stories from schools and colleges.