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23 April 2026

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Waltham Forest College names Jane Button as next principal

12h | Colleges

Ofqual issues first ‘rebuke’ of exam board over ‘serious failures’

18h | Awarding

Skills England bosses quizzed by MPs

18h | Skills reform

Revealed: Funding rates and delivery hours for apprenticeship units

1d | Apprenticeships

Novus selected again to deliver West Midlands prison education
2d | Prison education

Education questions April 2026: Live blog
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Death sentence for jails’ work-programme expansion
6d | Prison education

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‘Heartbreaking’: How colleges are forced to turn away students as demand outstrips space

6d | Colleges

Scrapping essays over AI fears ‘never off the table’, says Ofqual boss

6d | Awarding

CEO faces ruin after fighting directors’ bonus plan

6d | Awarding
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Don’t scrap industry-prized diploma, pleads BRIT School boss

6d | Colleges

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

6d | Awarding

£9m keeps complex-needs job finder scheme alive

6d | Inclusion

Inquiry vote backed as City & Guilds members demand answers
7d | Awarding

Colleges face funding squeeze as DfE rations student growth cash again
7d | Colleges

‘Stepping-stone’ GCSEs risk halting social mobility progress, SMC report warns
7d | Colleges

‘Experts at hand’ cash must not plug ‘existing gaps’, councils told
7d | Inclusion