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21 April 2026

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Novus selected again to deliver West Midlands prison education

21h | Prison education

Education questions April 2026: Live blog

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Death sentence for jails’ work-programme expansion

4d | Prison education
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‘Heartbreaking’: How colleges are forced to turn away students as demand outstrips space

4d | Colleges

Scrapping essays over AI fears ‘never off the table’, says Ofqual boss
4d | Awarding

CEO faces ruin after fighting directors’ bonus plan
4d | Awarding
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Don’t scrap industry-prized diploma, pleads BRIT School boss
4d | Colleges

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Exam board fined £270,000 over errors in physics papers

4d | Awarding

£9m keeps complex-needs job finder scheme alive

4d | Inclusion

Inquiry vote backed as City & Guilds members demand answers

5d | Awarding

Colleges face funding squeeze as DfE rations student growth cash again

5d | Colleges

‘Stepping-stone’ GCSEs risk halting social mobility progress, SMC report warns

5d | Colleges

‘Experts at hand’ cash must not plug ‘existing gaps’, councils told

5d | Inclusion

Team UK for WorldSkills Shanghai revealed
7d | WorldSkills

Revealed: The next 19 ‘technical excellence colleges’
7d | Colleges

Unions start the clock on binding college pay reform
7d | FE workforce

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‘The absolute friend is the truth’: inside Byron Nicolaides’ reckoning over City & Guilds
7d | Awarding