Ofsted, Young people

Q&A: Ofsted’s verdict on T Levels

'There remain issues we want to see addressed before these are rolled out at scale'

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Billy Camden
Colleges, Young people

How to buck the low T Level retention trend

We speak to the colleges who were able to retain more than 2 in 3 students

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Joshua Stein
Young people

Results 2023: 7 VTQ and T Level key trends

What we learned from today's data

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Billy Camden
Young people

T Level results 2023: 1 in 3 students dropped out

Nearly a quarter scored top grades this year with an overall pass rate of 90.5 per cent

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Shane Chowen
Ofsted, Skills reform, Young people

Students ‘misled’ and teachers struggling: Ofsted’s verdict on T Levels

Watchdog calls for rethink of controversial plans to axe BTECs amid 'teething issues' with replacements

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Young people

DfE renames struggling T Level transition programme

Officials think the name change will improve progression to T Levels

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Shane Chowen
Colleges, Long read

Colin Booth, chief executive, Luminate Education Group

Colin Booth’s 40-year career has taken him from teaching anything anybody would pay him for, whilst living homeless in...

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Jessica Hill
Colleges, Young people

Colleges share £100m for ‘fit for purpose’ T Level-ready buildings

107 projects win cash for wave five of the rollout

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Anviksha Patel
Young people

T Levels: Government departments not ‘walking the walk’ on industry placements

Even the government body designed to promote T Levels only offered a few

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Shane Chowen