She scored a C and two Bs in economics, contract law and business studies A-levels and had a conditional offer at Brighton University to study business law.
However, she will pursue her ambition to be a lawyer through four years of vocational training with the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives. She starts work next month at Thomas Eggar in Crawley on £12,500 a year. She said: “I know so many people who aren’t working in a job related to their degree, or aren’t in a job at all. I am delighted to be working, earning and training."
Migrant girl wins place at Oxford
Asta Diabate moved to Hackney in 2010 from Italy with no English qualifications. Today she was celebrating her achievements at A-level — two A grades and an A* in history, politics and philosophy.
She studied at the BSix Brooke House Sixth Form College in Hackney, where teachers said she was a “standout student” even among native English speakers.
Asta, 18, helped found the Dead Historians Society, an extracurricular history group, and she will go on to study ancient and modern history at Brasenose College, Oxford, in October.
