Qualifications

Post-16 qualifications inquiry: 5 interesting things we learned from former education ministers

Witnesses were quizzed on degree apprenticeships, BTECs and getting the policy balance right between vocational and academic education

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Will Nott
Climate Change

DfE climate change strategy: New FE teachers will be required to build sustainability into their teaching

Existing college staff will however not be required to include sustainability into their teaching

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News

Government may stop engaging with NUS over antisemitism allegations, minister warns

But the union has hit back, accusing the minister of spreading misinformation

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Industrial action

College staff warn of strike action if pay doesn’t increase by 10%

Staff pay has fallen by 35 per cent in real terms since 2009 and an indicative ballot of UCU...

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Qualifications, T Levels

‘Significantly’ less than half of AGQs like BTECs will get the chop, government concedes

'Through this process we expect to remove just a small proportion of the total level 3 BTEC and other...

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Will Nott
Covid-19

Ofsted: Eight key points from latest education recovery research

Providers told Ofsted that apprentices were not being given enough tasks due to pressures on businesses. 

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Ofsted

Recovering colleges’ latest Ofsted results

One principal said they weren't sure the Ofsted inspection was helpful or good value for money. Three colleges tell...

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Colleges, Ofsted

Ofsted slams SEND college for ‘highly inappropriate’ activities

The watchdog found that students with special educational needs and disabilities were tube fed and medicated in classrooms in...

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Will Nott
News

DfE slashes grant funding for ETF

It is expected that some programmes previously provided by ETF will be put out to tender by the DfE

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Will Nott