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VTQ and T Level 2024: 7 key results trends

North West has most T Level awards while engineering students struggle with industry placements

Jack Dyson
Anviksha Patel
Assessment

Heads slam ‘unacceptable’ above-inflation 2025 exam fee rises

Leaders say increases are unaffordable for schools and 'hard to stomach'

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
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Post-16 students studying narrower range of subjects, report finds

Decoupling AS and A-levels looks to have hit take-up for humanities while students 'increasingly' choosing from single subject group

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
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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
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SATs helpline struggling, and 9 more findings from STA accounts

Agency plans to 'transform' how it engages with schools, but still misses phone targets

Samantha Booth
Freddie Whittaker and Samantha Booth
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BTECs reform pause and review: Everything you need to know

DfE to conclude review of defunding reforms by December, but Labour accused of ‘betrayal’ amid lack of long-term pause

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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DfE pauses post-16 qualifications review and BTECs defunding

New education secretary announces 'short pause and review' of previous government's approach

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Personal statements reform to ‘level playing field’

Social mobility expert welcomes replacement of 'love letter' free text box

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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GCSEs 2024: More generous grades for French, German and computer science

Ofqual said language changes will align grades with Spanish, while computer science results found to have been ‘more stringent’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth