Assessment, Awarding

Ofqual extends term-time checkpoints to hundreds of thousands more VTQ students

Extra workload anticipated for schools and colleges to ensure grades are handed out on time

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Ofsted

Top Ofsted marks for Bristol apprenticeship provider in first full inspection

Professional Apprenticeships judged ‘outstanding’, with inspectors citing high pass rates

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Strike ballot fails to meet turnout threshold in half of colleges

UCU members at 32 colleges are, however, set to strike

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Multiply

£30m allocated in first year of Sunak’s flagship maths scheme goes unspent 

Whitehall too 'short-termist' after councils return most of Multiply funding

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Teacher training

DfE takes control of FE teacher training scheme mid-round

Taking Teaching Further programme brought in-house after one year into two-year scheme

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Prison education

Prison education: Treasury drags heels on pension guarantee

Private providers could pay 'considerably less' in pension contributions under new contract, unions warn

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
News

Four things we learned from the Employer Skills Survey 2022

Government mass survey of employers finds training investment continuing to ‘flatline’

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Students, T Levels

Young carers ‘put off’ T Levels

Benefit rules mean carers are choosing shorter courses or dropping out of education

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Skills England

Unit for Future Skills’ ‘useful to a point’ £2.5m spend in 15 months

Experts say staff costs are a "reasonable amount" of spending but users highlight some teething problems

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel