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A-level disadvantage gap widest since records began

The disadvantage gap at A-level is the widest since it was introduced six years ago, new data reveals. Provisional A-level data published today shows the gap in average point scores between disadvantaged and wealthier pupils sits at 5.08. This compares to 4.52 when teacher grades were awarded in 2020-21 and 4.88 in 2018-19, when exams […]

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One in four DfE staff could join civil service strike

Ofsted employees also vote to walk out as PCS union vows ‘major industrial action

News, Industrial action

Meet the ministers: Who’s who in Rishi Sunak’s first DfE lineup

Ministerial responsibilities at the DfE have finally been announced

News, Politics

‘Crushed’: 1 in 3 health and science T Level students turn their backs on flagship qualification

FE Week investigation unearths extent of the fallout from the ‘diabolical’ exams fiasco

News, T Levels

DfE’s top skills civil servant leaving post in December

Paul Kett has served in several roles at the department over six years, rising to the senior rank of director general in 2017

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Exam fee hikes ‘make a mockery’ of financial planning

Exam fee rises will cost schools and colleges hundreds of thousands of pounds more.

News, Colleges, Exams

DfE delays ‘devastating’ level 2 qualification reforms for a year

But plans to scrap thousands of level 2 and below courses go ahead

News, Qualifications, Skills reform

Revealed: 1 in 3 at risk BTECs saved from the chop

DfE publishes ‘final’ list of level 3 quals that overlap with first ten T Levels

News, Qualifications, Skills reform

BTEC and CTEC result delays scrutinised by MPs: 6 things we learned

Officials grilled on scale of the delays, the impact on learners and the action being taken to ensure the fiasco does not repeat

News, Results 2022