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‘Heartbreaking’: How colleges are forced to turn away students as demand outstrips space
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Don’t scrap industry-prized diploma, pleads BRIT School boss
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Exam board fined £270,000 over errors in physics papers
40 students received the wrong grades due to a number of errors in OCR's physics papers from last year
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£9m keeps complex-needs job finder scheme alive
DfE confirms cash for council programmes that support non-EHCP young people
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Inquiry vote backed as City & Guilds members demand answers
Trustees face anger over commercial-arm sale amid claims that concerns were ‘brushed aside’
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Colleges face funding squeeze as DfE rations student growth cash again
Only three-quarters of the funding expected for in-year growth to be paid in 2025-26
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‘Stepping-stone’ GCSEs risk halting social mobility progress, SMC report warns
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Proposed level 1 preparation courses for students resitting English and maths risk act as a ‘stumbling block’
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‘Experts at hand’ cash must not plug ‘existing gaps’, councils told
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£1.8bn fund for external support must not be 'disproportionately accessed by the most proactive ...
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Team UK for WorldSkills Shanghai revealed
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Revealed: The next 19 ‘technical excellence colleges’
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Unions start the clock on binding college pay reform
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Ministers also unveil the first 7 apprenticeship units
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First FE provider to receive Ofsted’s lowest new grade
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Adult care apprenticeship provider rated ‘urgent improvement’ due to 20% achievement rate
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More detail to come on 16-19 funding, says Phillipson
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