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MPs question £3m spent on UTC membership body

An influential cross-party group of MPs has raised concerns over the value for money offered by the membership body...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Energy Coast becomes only second ever ‘outstanding’ UTC

A university technical college in Cumbria that outsourced its teaching is celebrating after becoming only the second of its...

John Dickens
John Dickens
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UTC support charity paid £7k for Lord Baker’s personal secretary

The Baker Dearing Educational Trust spent nearly £7,000 funding a personal secretary for UTC architect Lord Baker, while raising...

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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DfE took no action against schools that ignored new careers duty

The Baker clause has been labelled a “law without teeth” after it emerged the government did not take any...

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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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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Baker clause update: DfE gears up to start ‘direct intervention’ in schools

Schools could face “direct intervention” from the Department for Education from September if they have failed to allow further...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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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