Billy Camden | Schools Week

Universities shun T-levels as UCAS deadline approaches

Russell Group members among those that won’t accept new technical qualifications

A class of their own: T-levels school recruits just one student

Classes half empty as schools’ flagging take-up of flagship courses revealed

MPs launch inquiry into ‘effectiveness’ of post-16 qualifications

A new inquiry into the “effectiveness” of post-16 qualifications like A-levels, T Levels and BTECs has been launched by the House of Commons education committee. MPs on the committee will explore whether a new baccalaureate system that would “allow young people to study a greater blend of academic and vocational subjects” should be introduced in […]

Revealed: 39 sixth forms and colleges to split £83m post-16 capacity fund

Capital funding will help settings cope with anticipated boom in pupil numbers, says DfE

Ministers play down BTECs cull

They have gone as far as to blame the media for fuelling a belief there will be a binary choice between A-levels and T Levels

Skills bill to ensure ‘equality’ for technical education in schools career advice

Law change will also allow Catholic sixth forms to academise

ESFA boss Eileen Milner to become combined authority chief executive

Eileen Milner will become the chief executive of her local combined authority when she leaves the Education and Skills Funding Agency. The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority announced today that the senior civil servant will take up the position in the autumn. Its board voted unanimously on the appointment on June 30, the same day […]

DfE’s BTEC reforms will hit disadvantaged students hardest, sector warns

Government plans to remove funding for the majority of BTEC qualifications will hit the most disadvantaged young students the hardest, various unions and sector representatives have warned. In a joint statement published today for a campaign called #ProtectStudentChoice, 11 organisations urged ministers to rethink plans outlined in the level 3 qualifications review. They expressed concern […]

20,000 students hit as UCAS glitch rejects university offers

Tens of thousands of students faced more stress this morning as a glitch in UCAS’s system automatically rejected their university offers. Around 100,000 students have until midnight today (June 10) to make their decisions through the admissions service’s portal. But as many as one in five received emails from UCAS in the early hours of […]