News

Lady Spielman and Lord Gove: Tories confirm peerages

Ex-Ofsted chief and former education secretary both handed peerages by the Conservative party

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
News

DfE scraps three more T-levels

Meanwhile Pearson scoops health and science contracts from NCFE

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
BTECs

Revealed: the BTECs saved from the chop… for now

Ministers announce level 3 qualifications that will no longer be defunded next year

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
News

MPs plead for BTECs reprieve ahead of crunch review

Parliament's education select committee has stepped in days before level 3 review is expected to be published

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
News

Ofqual demands ‘honesty’ in new rules for exam boards

Proposals include 'principles' that could see sanctions on organisations that undermine public confidence in qualifications

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Politics

Helen Hayes elected education committee chair

SEND reform, child poverty and the school curriculum are on Hayes's agenda

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
BTECs

Phillipson defends ‘risible’ partial level 3 defunding pause

Pausing 2025 and 2026 defunding plans could prejudice DfE review, education secretary says

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Exams

T-level drop-outs switch to courses due for axe

90% of T-level drop-outs who switched to other technical courses went on to qualifications due to be defunded

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
T-levels

T-level content review launched amid ‘worrying’ drop-out rate

Government said both the ‘breadth of content’ and ‘burden of assessment’ could be changed

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen