News, Opinion Sponsored Helping providers recover from the impact of Coronavirus The AELP Business Recovery Conference on 9-10 September 2020 is the flagship skills event of the year. Presented online… Shane Mann 6y JANE HICKIE 6y Opinion Creating a more transparent apprenticeship funding approach We are determined at the Institute to create a more transparent approach for making apprenticeship funding band recommendations that… Shane Mann 6y ANNA WEST 6y Opinion Now we must pick up the pieces of our broken system The results are in but the work of ensuring students rebuild their confidence has only just begun, writes Liz… JL Dutaut 6y LIZ BROMLEY 6y Opinion BTEC results are usually a reason for celebration, not this year High-achieving students failing their whole qualification, almost half failing to achieve a pass – read journalism lecturer Nick Reinis-Keightley’s… Fraser Whieldon 6y Nick Reinis-Keightley 6y Opinion Government incompetence should not penalise the young Going back to teacher-assessed grades for A-levels is the “best option” for the “unprecedented and chaotic circumstances,” writes Labour’s… Fraser Whieldon 6y Toby Perkins 6y Opinion The chaos generated by this year’s exam results lies squarely at the door of Gavin Williamson The education secretary has, instead of neutralising problems with A-level and GCSE gradings, “taken a blow torch” to the… Fraser Whieldon 6y Tom Bewick 6y Opinion Key workers of tomorrow are taking their first steps today On the day BTEC learners will be finding out their results, Cindy Rampersaud writes about how their skills will… Fraser Whieldon 6y Cindy Rampersaud 6y Opinion The government must address ‘inexplicable variations’ in sixth form colleges’ A-level results Sixth form colleges are reporting that their A-level results do not reflect the grades they provided, or three year… Freddie Whittaker 6y BILL WATKIN 6y Opinion Apprenticeship assessment oversight change was needed as Ofqual has the regulatory levers to enforce changes End-point assessment is a key aspect of the government’s apprenticeship reforms, providing an independent test that an apprentice has… Nick Linford 6y Jennifer Coupland 6y Opinion How EdTech can transform further education post-lockdown The silver lining of the Covid-19 pandemic could well be a revolution in how further education utilizes the power… Billy Camden 6y Dana Dabbous 6y Opinion T-levels: optimistic preparations continue but Covid-19 heightens challenges Despite recent announcements, the impact of Covid-19 on T-level preparations remains acute in some areas, writes Suzanne Straw T-levels… Billy Camden 6y SUZANNE STRAW 6y News, Opinion Pearson and Amazon Web Services develop first Cloud Computing BTEC Higher National qualifications to help address the cloud computing skills gap Pearson is really pleased to announce, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), the development of the first… Billy Camden 6y Gary Gates 6y Newer 1 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 261 Older