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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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Backtrack part 2: BTECs and other vocational exams cancelled from next month

Written BTEC and other vocational exams planned for February and March should not go ahead, the education secretary has said. But students taking competency-based assessment including apprenticeships can continue with “protective measures put in place”. Gavin Williamson outlined the plans in a letter to Ofqual’s interim chief regulator Simon Lebus this morning before justifying the […]

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Revealed: Williamson sets out his plan for replacing exams this year

Education secretary Gavin Williamson has this morning outlined his expectation for how exams will be replaced this year. In a letter to exams regulator Ofqual, he said that grades should be issued “as late as possible”, with teacher assessments only changed as apart of the moderation process in the “exception”, and wants the idea of […]

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We must steady the ship after the government’s half U-turn

After a week at sea like no other, the next big challenge is teacher-assessed grades, writes David Hughes This week we’ve seen another lockdown, confusion, dismay and anxieties raised – and that’s just in education. The prime minister’s third lockdown announcement on Monday night incorporated the surprising decision to go ahead with the January series […]

Opinion, Uncategorized

Ofqual warns this summer’s grading solution is unlikely to be consistent

Ofqual’s new interim chief has warned that the solution to replacing this summer’s exams “won’t be the same for all” qualifications. Simon Lebus, the former Cambridge Assessment group chief executive, offered a message to students to continue to engage “as fully as you can” in education on Wednesday morning ahead of the education secretary’s speech […]

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 338

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Arv Kaushal, Equality, diversity and inclusion manager, Milton Keynes College Start date: January 2021 Concurrent job: Trustee and steering committee member, BAMEed Network Interesting fact: He is a “massive foodie,” and writes a blog on traditional Indian vegetarian recipes Ian Pryce, Chair, UTC Silverstone Start date: […]

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January exams on or off? How colleges have responded

The January vocational exam series descended into chaos at the start of the week as the government passed the buck to colleges to decide whether they go ahead, while telling the rest of the nation to “stay at home” as the new variant of Covid-19 causes cases to spiral. In a live TV broadcast on […]

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How exam boards will proceed: a one-stop shop of what we know so far

Following the government’s decision to let providers decide whether to cancel exams this month, awarding bodies have been outlining how they plan to award grades for vocational qualifications if any exams do not go ahead. All of the media attention has unsurprisingly been on what will happen with BTECs, so FE Week has spoken with […]

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