A secondary school headteacher in the Isle of Man is rejecting what she sees as the cynical view of the United Kingdom's universities minister, who claims A-level results are being manipulated.

David Willetts says too many heads are wasting the time of their best pupils, by pushing them into easier subjects, in the interests of their standings in school league tables.

Yesterday (Tuesday), he announced universities would have to reveal black-lists of A-levels which harmed students' prospects.

Ballakermeen High School's Adrianne Burnett says Manx schools do offer softer subjects, such as drama and media studies, but they try to balance them with more academic ones: