Results 2024

Results 2024: 7 key trends from VTQ and T Level results

North West tops the table on T Level awards while engineering students most likely to struggle with industry placements

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Long read, Qualifications, Skills reform

Destination defund: the fight to save travel and tourism courses

High-profile workforce shortages in the travel industry haven’t stopped the government’s plans to defund rafts of popular courses. Jessica...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Long read, T Levels

Focus feature: T Levels two years on

Teething problems and tweaks notwithstanding, FE providers are unexpectedly positive about the biggest new technical and vocational qualifications in...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Skills reform, T Levels

T Levels will make the qualifications system less confusing

But other qualifications, including BTECs, will continue to play an important role alongside T Levels and A levels, writes...

Jess Staufenberg
Alex Burghart
Opinion

Keeping BTECs will allow T Levels to work

Preserving funding for applied general qualifications is the best way to ensure T Levels succeed, says Ian Pryce Can...

Jess Staufenberg
Ian Pryce