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Personal statements reform to ‘level playing field’

Social mobility expert welcomes replacement of ‘love letter’ free text box

Uni marking boycott: DfE suspends teacher trainee degree requirement

Graduates now able to start ITT courses before getting their degree this year after temporary rule change

Teachers fear 2022 exams will widen attainment gap

‘Impacts of the pandemic on education are far from over,’ new research finds

IfS: 1 in 4 poorer pupils could lose out under proposed student loan grade thresholds

Around 1 in 10 recent education undergrads would also have been excluded, think tank warns

Augar review: What schools need to know about university shake-up

Ministers have set out their plans for higher education reform

‘Ladder-up not levelling-up’: DfE urged to rethink student loan grade threshold plan

Ministers are considering blocking pupils without certain grades from getting student finance

Top university places up 28% after record A-level results

Accepted student numbers on competitive courses have soared

DfE set to pay majority of £10k medical school move incentives

The Department for Education is set to stump up most of the cash for a scheme which will pay would-be medicine and dentistry students £10,000 to take up an alternative place if their chosen medical school is over-subscribed. It is understood the government expects to shoulder £6,500 of the cost of each payout under a […]

GCSE and A-level appeals 2021: Your questions answered

Students wanting to appeal their grades this summer will face a different process than usual, with warnings any reviews will have a “very high” threshold to meet for results to be overturned. There will also be an autumn exam series for students who want to sit a formal test in their subject, if they are […]