Top marks for Ukrainian teen who fled war and took A-levels in just eight months.

Top London private school gives free place to Ukrainian teenager who will now head to university.
Tymur Sabri
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Anna Davis @_annadavis18 August 2023

A Ukrainian teenager who fled the war and was given a free place at a top London private school achieved three A-Levels despite only studying for eight months.

Tymur Sabri, from Kyiv, arrived in London with his mother in March last year and moved in with a Chiswick resident who contacted Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, where fees are £24,000 a year. The school offered Tymur a free place.

He scored A, C and D in Music, Physics and Maths and will now go on to study music and sound recording at the University of Surrey.

Tymur had to leave behind his father in Ukraine – who had himself fled war in Aghanistan when he was a student – and his older brother Arthur, who is a medical student.

With his mother Svitlana he travelled to Poland, then Paris and then on to London.

Latymer Upper School’s bursary scheme enable it to offer places to children fleeing conflicts around the world. There are currently 13 students at the school from Ukraine on a free place.

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