level 3

Level 3 announcement is a shot in the arm for sector unity

The government has made the right decision in most cases and bought the sector time to keep making its...

JL Dutaut
James Kewin
level 3

Our three recommendations to the government’s Level 3 review

The review must take students’ needs as its starting point to decide on the right mix of qualifications

JL Dutaut
James Kewin
level 3

We can’t afford complacency in the fight for BTECs

Defunding these qualifications is ill-informed and the risk is too high for learners, colleges and universities

JL Dutaut
David Phoenix
level 3

Level 3 qualifications reform poses a risk to digital skills

BTECS are an essential part of skills training for the digital sector, for which no replacement yet exists

JL Dutaut
Julia Von Klonowski
DfE, level 3, Qualifications

BTEC survival hope after Smith’s policy shift

Courses that 'overlap' with T Levels faced the cut under plans inherited from the Conservatives

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
level 3

How we’ll go about reforming the level 3 landscape

Skills minister Jacqui Smith sets out the government's guiding principles for reviewing qualifications to meet the needs of learners...

JL Dutaut
Jacqui Smith
level 3

Why Gordon Brown is wrong to go against Labour’s T Level promise

Labour's commitment to pause and review the defunding of T Level alternatives is right - not least because of...

JL Dutaut
Alice Barnard
level 3

We need more than ‘pause and review’ from Labour – and we need it now

Our campaign has all but secured a post-election pause and review of level 3 qualification defunding. Now the opposition...

JL Dutaut
James Kewin
BTECs, level 3, Skills reform, T Levels

Ministers accused of level 3 backtrack

More than half of reformed AGQs will be scrapped by government edict, new analysis reveals

Billy Camden
Billy Camden