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Over 40 organisations removed from apprentice assessment register

Ofqual involvement in applications process bolsters regulation of end point assessment

News, Apprenticeships

Profile: Michelle Meadows

Dr Michelle Meadows was second-in-command at Ofqual during the 2020 exams fiasco, a grading disaster that will echo for years to come. She reveals to Samantha Booth what happened behind closed doors …  Dr Michelle Meadows is used to a grading crisis. She helped to handle at least five that hit the headlines in her […]

Profiles

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 […]

News

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, Staff

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

News

Exam fee hikes ‘make a mockery’ of financial planning

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

News, Awarding, Colleges

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