Samantha Booth | FE Week

£11k canapés help guests swallow Zahawi’s climate strategy

Taste Studios, trading as ‘The Recipe’, was given a £11,480 contract to provide the food – about £46 a head

SEND review consultation may be extended as accessible versions delayed

BSL and easy-read versions of the green paper were promised almost a month ago

Revealed: Colleges’ moral dilemma over Russian energy contracts

College explores cutting ties with Gazprom, but could face exit fees and more expensive new contracts

DfE extends Covid school and college workforce fund until Easter

Staff fund extended until April 8

Only use exam board websites to access advance information, students told

GCSE and A-level students should only access advance information about exam topics on official websites, exam boards have said, amid fears misinformation could spread online. Exam boards are due to publish advance information for most GCSE and A-level topics throughout today. It is one of several mitigations aimed at helping students in the first exam year since […]

Omicron: January exams start smoothly despite staff shortages

Staff are working extra hours, with managers stepping in to help invigilate vocational and technical qualifications

How effective are face masks in the classroom?

Minsters have published the evidence behind their decision to bring back face coverings in the classroom

Just 195 of 5.7m teacher grades changed after exam board reviews

And for the almost 1m VTQ TAGs, just 636 were changed

Ian Bauckham made permanent chair of Ofqual

Academy trust boss Ian Bauckham has been appointed as Ofqual’s permanent chair, the exams regulator has announced. Bauckham, chief executive of the Tenax Schools Trust, has been the organisation’s interim chair for the past year, succeeding Roger Taylor who stepped down last December. He will begin a three-year term as its permanent chair from next […]