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Registrations for DfE’s £1m ‘skills toolkit’ could be from all around the globe

Registrations for courses on the government’s “skills toolkit” that have been celebrated by ministers could be coming from anywhere in the world, the Department for Education has admitted. More than £1 million of public money has been spent on developing and advertising the “platform”, which directs visitors to free online content provided by the likes […]

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Ofqual’s criticism of the government’s T Level plans gives me hope

The regulator agrees with many principals like me that the T Level reforms have serious flaws, writes Neil Patterson  Reading Ofqual’s response to the government’s consultation over post-16 qualifications gives me hope. It echoes opinions that have been shared by many I know since the intended reforms were announced. I was part of the original […]

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A new fiasco in the making? We grade the various exam replacement plans

The government has finally published its consultation revealing the plan to replace GCSE and A-level exams this year. In some quarters it has done little to quell the fear that we’re heading for another fiasco – but this time, with teachers left to cop the blame. FE Week investigates … Move over mutant algorithm, we […]

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Ofqual delays decision on solution for apprentices stuck in limbo

A decision on whether apprentices can receive teacher-assessed grades for their English and maths if they are unable to sit their assessments has been pushed back by Ofqual until at least late February. As previously reported by FE Week, tens of thousands of work-based learners, mostly in the health and care sectors, have been stuck […]

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The challenges facing 2021 exam grades are very different to 2020

Ofqual and the Department for Education didn’t want to make this decision around exam grades, and now face a daunting task, writes Tom Bewick Hard core Star Trek fans will know that it wasn’t Mr Spock that said to Captain Kirk, “It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it.”    Instead, these famous lines first appeared in […]

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Ofqual raises concerns over DfE reforms to BTECs and other level 3 qualifications

Government plans to remove funding for thousands of courses, such as BTECs, that compete with T Levels and A-levels risk destabilising the qualifications market and adversely narrowing learner choice, Ofqual has warned. The exams regulator has today raised a number of concerns in response to the Department for Education’s level 3 qualifications review. The DfE […]

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Ofqual publishes summer 2021 exams plan

The exams regulator Ofqual has finally revealed its plans for replacing exams this summer. Two consultation documents have gone live this afternoon: one for GCSEs and A-levels; and one for vocational and technical qualifications including BTECs and functional skills. Both have a two week deadline for submissions of 29 January 2021.   GCSEs and A-levels […]

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Ofqual must urgently allow teacher assessed grades for apprentices

All the stops on teacher assessed grades are being pulled out for GCSEs and A-levels, but yet again apprentices appear to be forgotten, writes Jane Hickie Lockdown three means that the focus must again be on protecting learners and apprentices from losing their livelihoods or not completing their programmes.  But the government’s current measures around apprenticeship […]

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Ofsted snubbed as DfE moves closer to skills bootcamps national rollout

Thousands of adult education courses across England and funded from the new National Skills Fund will not be inspected by Ofsted, the government has admitted. FE Week can reveal that Department for Education sees no need for Ofsted inspections for skills bootcamps – a £38 million programme of courses targeting 25,000 unemployed and employed adults, […]

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