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Confirmed: Most GCSE and A-level exams pushed back three weeks

Students will still sit one GCSE English and one GCSE maths exam before the summer half term next year,...

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Covid-19 forecasting app for colleges launched

A new app that forecasts the spread of Covid-19 in colleges has been launched. Developed by the University of...

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Covid blamed as targets revised at flagship Institutes of Technology

Covid is being blamed for recruitment concerns at the government’s new flagship Institutes of Technology (IoT), FE Week can...

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Popular apprenticeship scrapped by government could be revived

Plans are afoot to revive the level 2 business administration apprenticeship under a new name, FE Week can reveal....

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DfE launches tender for 8 new Institutes of Technology

A competition to create the next wave of Institutes of Technology has been launched by the education secretary Gavin...

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Traineeships tender finally launched but with short deadline

Training providers have been given less than three weeks to bid in the government’s much-anticipated tender for 19 to...

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Former Ofqual director planning new FE membership body

A former technical qualifications director at the exams watchdog has signalled intention to establish another end-point assessment organisation (EPAO)...

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Young people hit hardest in full-year apprenticeship figures

Apprenticeship starts for the whole of 2019/20 fell 18 per cent on the previous academic year, new figures show....

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DfE broke student data protection laws, damning ICO audit reveals

The Department for Education broke data protection laws in the way it handles student data, the information watchdog has...

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