'A' Day for students as A level exam results are revealed this Thursday

With so much unrest and disruption in the capital of late and focus remaining firmly on the unlawful minority amongst young people today, the hard work and efforts of those about to receive their A level results has been largely overlooked in the news.

Yet for many young people the past weeks have been an anxious time, not only due to the troubles, but because of the forthcoming 'A' day this Thursday, when all students will discover their A Level results.

There are no provisions for young adults to sit their A Levels in Soho itself, so many go to schools and colleges in the surrounding areas, such as St Marylebone C Of E Secondary School and Queen's Colleges are where any student from Soho are likely to have sat their exams.

St Marylebone C Of E Secondary School for post 16's is located just minutes away from Baker Street, the home of the famous fictional intellectual, Sherlock Holmes, on Blandford Street, situated in a relatively new building, opened in 2009 to accommodate both male and female students.

Queen's College is situated not far from Soho on Harley Street and is an independent school for girls and young women aged 11 through to 18 and this Thursday will see students from both colleges clamouring for those all-important exam results in the hope that they will have achieved the grades they want.

It is a trying time for students, with many universities already announcing that they are full and refusing the applications of record numbers of students, coupled with the rise in tuition fees in 2012, the future at university will seem a daunting and costly one to say the least. Which is why perhaps, some A Level students are opting out of going to university at all, in favour of heading out in to the world of work to pursue careers with some of the UK's biggest employers such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Marks & Spencer, Laing O'Rourke and Network Rail all reporting increases in A-level entry jobs this summer. The benefits of taking this route are quite attractive for some students, no tuitions fees, student debts and a chance to get onto the career ladder a full 3 years before university graduates. There are those who will argue however, that there is no substitute for a university education and many companies do fast track graduates, so it is not a given that either option is better than the other. There will of course be those students who will wish to take full advantage of the fact that the hike in tuition fees of anything up to £9,000 is not set to begin until 2012, when Undergraduates enrolling on courses in England, can expect to owe £59,100 when they finally graduate.

It's a difficult time to be a young adult in London and England in general and for so many, so much of their dreams for the future will be decided on Thursday when the A level exam results are finally revealed.