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Year 10 numbers dip at UTCs despite claims to the contrary

The organisation behind the university technical college programme has claimed the number of 14-year-olds studying at the institutions is...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Pupil destinations will trump Progress 8 as headline measure for UTCs

The Department for Education is changing the way it judges the success of university technical colleges and studio schools,...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Allow UTCs and studio schools to select pupils, argues Toby Young

University technical colleges and studio schools should be allowed to select pupils on the basis of aptitude, a controversial...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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UTC becomes first school with cameras in every classroom

A university technical college in Birmingham has become the first school in the country to install always-on, 360-degree cameras...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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DfE spent more than £23m on failed studio schools

The government has spent more than £23 million on studio schools that have either closed or never opened but...

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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DfE takes action to force schools to follow the ‘Baker Clause’

The Department for Education has begun to intervene in schools which fail in their legal duty to allow training...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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71% of UTCs rated less than Ofsted ‘good’ in the last year

More than two thirds of the university technical colleges visited by Ofsted in the last year are ‘requires improvement’...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Revealed: How Gove was forced to create UTCs

As education secretary, Michael Gove was forced to create university technology colleges by George Osborne and David Cameron, a...

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Warrington UTC enrages neighbouring schools by ‘poaching’ pupils

A university technical college in Cheshire has infuriated local schools after it invited its 2018 intake to start this...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson