Ofsted

Ofsted ditches Covid disruption deferral policy

The inspection code of conduct has also been strengthened

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth and Tom Belger
Ofsted

SEND college judged ‘inadequate’ over safety concerns

Staffing issues and gaps in SEND experience highlighted by watchdog

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Apprenticeships

Revealed: First solely apprenticeship provider granted degree awarding powers

Euan Blair’s Multiverse can now run and award its own degree level apprenticeships

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Awarding

Pearson faces record £1.3m fine for letting examiners remark own work

‘No evidence’ students received the wrong outcomes but schools and colleges awarded £300k compensation

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Provider plans to quickly double apprentice numbers after securing ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating

MBKB Ltd secures top rating just six years after first offering apprenticeships.

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Colleges
Billy Camden


Devolution

East Midlands area secures adult education budget powers in first of a kind county devolution deal

Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire secure adult education budget responsibilities as first mayoral combined county authority.

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Awarding

Access to HE awarding body files for insolvency

It comes weeks after the organisation split from the NOCN Group

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
16-19, English and maths, Results 2022

GCSE results 2022: Maths and English resits pass rate takes big drop

Pass rate also takes a slight dip on pre-pandemic levels

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Qualifications, Results 2022

Pearson warns 7,000 students won’t get BTEC results tomorrow

It comes as exam boards finally admit nearly 2,000 grades still to be issued five days after level 3…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Student outcry over first-year health and science T Level results

First year health and science T Level students launched a petition over grading of summer exams.

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
Qualifications, Results 2022

Ofqual launches BTECs delay review – but Pearson tight-lipped on number in limbo

Labour and sector leaders demand answers over four-day wait

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth

Must read

Qualifications

Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs

New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics, Skills reform

DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms

Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges, Long read

Colleges on the frontline of a divided nation

As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Long read

Alun Francis, chair of the Social Mobility Commission

Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Long read, Prison education

The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release

‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Politics

Phillipson to exempt young people from level 7 apprenticeships funding axe

Education secretary makes ‘important concession’ amid backlash from other government departments

Billy Camden
Billy Camden