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Finance T Level faces write-off after no AOs bid to run it

Wave 3 generation 2 competition also sees engineering licenses transfer to Pearson from City & Guilds

A Decade of Impact: Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards Celebrate 10 Years of Inspiring Change at Landmark London Event

Friday 7th November 2025 – Over 700 guests gathered at the Hilton London Metropole for the 10th annual Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards, marking a decade of celebrating the nation’s most inspiring apprentices and the employers, learning providers, and institutions that champion them.

College lecturers, leaders and teams among 93 Pearson National Teaching Awards silver winners

‘Extraordinary impact’ of 93 finalists announced on national Thank a Teacher Day

Enter your fabulous FE colleagues into the Pearson National Teaching Awards

The 1st of March entry deadline is fast approaching for the 2024 Pearson National Teaching Awards – and we need your help to uncover the educators and support staff who are delivering inspirational work every day to help transform the lives of young people in FE colleges.

‘This isn’t the end of pen-and-paper exams’, Pearson says as English GCSEs set to go on-screen

The board is the latest to announce its timeline for digital assessment, but will still offer the choice of paper-based exams

Colleges and schools cry foul over missing vocational results

Colleges and schools across England are still awaiting the results of some vocational qualifications, despite a promise from government that all grades would be issued by today. Some learners have been told they may have to wait until next week to receive grades for BTECs and other vocational qualifications. The Department for Education has refused […]

Minister hints at potential further delay to vocational results

Exam boards are set to work “through the weekend and into next week” to process vocational qualification results, a minister has said, suggesting not all will be issued by tomorrow’s deadline. In a message to providers sent out tonight, skills minister Gillian Keegan acknowledged there was a chance some students would not receive their results […]

Awarding bodies told to ‘strengthen controls’ on applied generals after ‘unwarranted’ rise in grades

Ofqual is urging awarding organisations to “strengthen their controls” on certain types of applied general qualifications, after it uncovered evidence of grade inflation on old-style BTECs. Its research into the “legacy” level three BTECs, which don’t include any external assessment, found that the proportion of people gaining the highest grades on some of these courses […]

Pearson’s apprentice Ofsted rating up two grades to ‘good’

Pearson has recovered two grades from its previous ‘inadequate’ Ofsted rating for its apprenticeship provision. The global education business was in January ranked ‘inadequate’ across the board by the education watchdog. But it was inspected again last month, and the report out today returned a unanimous ‘good’ verdict. It said: “Leaders and managers have implemented successfully […]