Stormzy Surprises Croydon Students Picking Up Their A Level Results
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Everyone loves Stormzy, don't they? He's the grime scene's nice guy.
Let me give you an example or two - he honoured a fan's request to perform at his late-father's funeral, he loves a bit of Catchphrase (and Love Island) and he stopped his gig in Ibiza to watch the England penalty shoot-out.
What a LAD.
And now he's surprising students collecting their A level results as he launches his own scholarship, which aims to encourage academically bright young black students.
Yes that's right - Stormzy will be paying for two black students to go to Cambridge University today.
He turned up at Harris City Academy Crystal Palace in Croydon, south London, to invite pupils to apply for his scholarship - in which he will pay for their tuition.
According to the Croydon Advertiser, there will be four fully paid scholarships available, two this year and two next, where exceptional black students can get their tuition fees at the prestigious university paid for.
They will have to have landed a place at Cambridge already, with the scholarship then helping with the cost of studying there.
Stormzy told the BBC: "It's so important for black students, especially, to be aware that it can 100% be an option to attend a university of this calibre."
Cambridge has been criticised for not admitting many pupils from a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) background.
The university says that it admitted 58 black students on to undergraduate courses in 2017.
Stormzy says: "We're a minority, the playing ground isn't level for us and it's vital that all potential students are given the same opportunity."
Stormzy began rapping at the age of 11 and during a 2016 question and answer session at Oxford University he said about his school years: "I was a very naughty child, on the verge of getting expelled, but I wasn't a bad child; everything I did was for my own entertainment.
"But when I went into an exam I did really well."
He said he got six A*s, three A grades and five B grades at GCSE but then only achieved a 'humbling' A, B, C, D and E at A level.
He told the Croydon Advertiser: ""For someone who would cuss in class and was on the verge of being expelled, it was A-Levels that showed me that in life you need work ethic."
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