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UCU response to BTEC cuts
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FE reforms
May 12, 2022
Cash pulled from popular BTecs in move to T-levels
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May 11, 2022
Qualifications that overlap with T Levels
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May 11, 2022
38 BTECs facing the chop to clear way for first T Levels
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May 11, 2022
38 BTECs facing the chop to clear way for T-levels
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T-levels
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May 11, 2022
Defend – don’t defund – proven qualifications for school leavers
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Apr 28, 2022
Report: Holding talent back? What is next for the future of level 3?
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Apr 28, 2022
BTECs offer ‘critical alternative route to HE’
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Apr 28, 2022
‘Significantly’ less than half of AGQs like BTECs will get the chop, government concedes
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Apr 7, 2022
Skills Bill: Government ‘compromises’ on careers but no delay to BTEC defunding
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Skills and Post-16 Education Bill
Mar 28, 2022
T Levels, BTECs, and university admissions
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Mar 14, 2022
Ofqual proposes stricter controls on BTECs that survive qualifications cull
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BTECs
Feb 24, 2022
Ofqual proposes stricter controls on BTECs that survive qualifications cull
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Academic qualifications
Technical qualifications
Feb 24, 2022
Why we must #ProtectStudentChoice and retain BTEC qualifications
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BTECs
Feb 14, 2022
Why cutting study options is a big risk to social mobility
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T-levels
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Jan 28, 2022
Why we must protect student choice and retain BTEC qualification
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BTECs
Jan 28, 2022
Even if BTECs disappear, the students taking them won’t
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T-levels
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Skills
Jan 25, 2022
BTEC funding to be debated in parliament after petition hits 100k signatures
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Jan 21, 2022
BTEC students nearly twice as likely to drop out of university, report finds
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Jan 15, 2022
Students with BTECs are successful across a range of university outcomes
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Jan 12, 2022
Universities can’t afford to make the same admissions mistakes with T Levels as they have with the BTEC
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Vocational education
Jan 11, 2022
Employers keep asking for unnecessary maths and English grades from apprentices
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Dec 13, 2021
Let T Level students study other quals at the same time, says new Ofqual chief
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Nov 26, 2021
Keeping BTECs will allow T Levels to work
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Nov 21, 2021
Delay to BTEC defunding announced in first Commons Skills Bill reading
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Nov 16, 2021
The over-hasty removal of most BTECs risks holding young people back from achieving the qualifications they need
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Nov 16, 2021
Labour: BTECs defunding delay ‘doesn’t go far enough’
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Nov 16, 2021
UK delays defunding of popular BTEC vocational qualifications
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Nadhim Zahawi
Nov 16, 2021
Government delays further education changes by a year
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Nadhim Zahawi
Nov 15, 2021
Government pauses plan to abolish technical qualifications
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Nadhim Zahawi
Nov 15, 2021
Zahawi announces slowing-down of BTECs cull
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Nadhim Zahawi
Nov 15, 2021
Zahawi announces slowing down on BTECs cull
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Nadhim Zahawi
Nov 15, 2021
BTec cull could deter working-class students from nursing, universities fear
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Nursing
Nov 13, 2021
Labour warns BTECs cull could hit healthcare and retail hardest
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Healthcare
Retail
Nov 11, 2021
Which BTEC subjects have the best (and worst) gender balance?
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Gender imbalance
Nov 10, 2021
Scrapping BTECs is bad for levelling up and for BAME students
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BAME
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Nov 9, 2021
Ministers play down BTECs cull
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BTECs
Nov 5, 2021
Ministers play down BTECs cull
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BTECs
Nov 5, 2021
The case against BTECs
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BTECs
Nov 1, 2021
BTECs: MPs to probe effect of defunding level 3 courses on learners
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Level 3
Oct 25, 2021
More than 100 MPs and peers urge education secretary to rethink plans to scrap most BTECs
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Oct 16, 2021
Scrapping B-Tecs 'hammer blow for social mobility'
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Oct 13, 2021
BTECs: 118 MPs and Lords call on new education secretary to rethink cull
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Oct 13, 2021
Skills Bill debate: Senior Tories split on level 3 reform
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Oct 13, 2021
DfE refuses petition’s call to back down from defunding BTECs
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Aug 20, 2021
The removal of BTEC qualifications will 'massively impact disadvantaged students' Government is warned
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Aug 19, 2021
Labour warns cutting off BTEC funding could entrench inequality
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Aug 13, 2021
More than 230,000 Level 2 BTEC students receive their grades
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Results day
Aug 12, 2021
CBI responds to Btec results day
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BTECs
Results day
Aug 10, 2021
Btecs 2021: How they were graded this year
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Aug 10, 2021
Btecs: are alternative qualifications fit for purpose?
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Aug 3, 2021
Kenneth Baker: plan to scrap BTecs is an act of vandalism
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Jul 29, 2021
NASUWT urges Government not to scrap BTECs
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Jul 29, 2021
Government told it would be ‘reckless’ to scrap BTECs
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Jul 29, 2021
Lord Baker: Scrapping Btecs 'an act of vandalism'
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Jul 29, 2021
Education bodies write to Gavin Williamson urging him not to scrap BTEC qualifications
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Jul 29, 2021
Don't scrap BTEC
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Jul 29, 2021
Williamson slammed for ‘ignoring’ concerns about scrapping BTECs
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BTECs
Jul 29, 2021
Williamson slammed for ‘ignoring’ concerns about scrapping BTECs
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Jul 29, 2021
Btecs: 'Engines of social mobility' can't be scrapped
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Jul 29, 2021
Reckless to scrap BTecs, educators warn
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Jul 29, 2021
Scrapping BTECs 'disastrous' for widening participation
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Jul 14, 2021
Some 'won't get level 3' after qualifications reform
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Qualification reforms
Jul 14, 2021
Btecs: DfE to finally announce level 3 reforms
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Jul 14, 2021
Level 3 qualifications review: Reprieve for some BTECs
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Jul 14, 2021
Level 3 qualifications review: Reprieve for some BTECs
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Level 3
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Jul 14, 2021
DfE’s BTEC reforms will hit disadvantaged students hardest, sector warns
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Disadvantaged pupils
Jun 15, 2021
Btecs: Leaders say DfE must rethink defunding plans
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Jun 15, 2021
DfE reforms to BTECs and other level 3 quals will hit disadvantaged students hardest, sector warns
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Jun 15, 2021
International Btecs: How (and why) they are thriving
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May 20, 2021
Btecs and T levels 'second-class qualifications'
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Apr 16, 2021
Call for new ‘baccalaureate’ to replace A-levels, BTECs, T-Levels and apprenticeships
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Apr 16, 2021
EDSK: A-levels, BTECs and T-levels should be replaced by a ‘Baccalaureate’
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Apr 16, 2021
BTEC Awards 2021: Deadline extended
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Apr 1, 2021
Ofqual: Assessed content in VTQs can be reduced
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Mar 24, 2021
How will teachers decide exam grades in England this summer?
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Feb 25, 2021
Ofqual assessment plans: What FE staff need to know
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Feb 25, 2021
Exams 2021: Ofqual reveals plan for Btec and other VTQs
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Feb 25, 2021
Confirmed: How BTEC and other vocational quals will be graded in 2021
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Feb 25, 2021
Defunding BTECs could set the widening access agenda back by decades
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Feb 11, 2021
Btecs: Why defunding qualifications would be a mistake
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Feb 1, 2021
Btecs: Why removing student options would be disastrous
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Jan 20, 2021
Ofqual raises concerns over DfE reforms to BTECs and other level 3 qualifications
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Jan 18, 2021
Ofqual raises concerns over DfE’s proposed BTEC reforms
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Jan 18, 2021
Btecs: Ofqual asks DfE to delay qualifications reform
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Jan 18, 2021
The government made BTEC students like me feel we didn’t matter
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Coronavirus
Jan 16, 2021
Btecs: Williamson defends cancellation of further exams
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Jan 13, 2021
Backtrack part 2: BTECs and other vocational exams cancelled from next month
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Jan 13, 2021
Learner update: No BTEC external assessments to take place in February or March this year
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Jan 13, 2021
Btecs: Exams should not go ahead in February and March
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Jan 13, 2021
Btec debacle shows we are still too often forgotten
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Jan 11, 2021
BTECs: Almost 60% of colleges cancel January exams
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Jan 9, 2021
How exam boards will proceed: a one-stop shop of what we know so far
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Pearson
OCR
Jan 8, 2021
Williamson defends decision to leave colleges to decide whether BTECs go ahead
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Gavin Williamson
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Jan 6, 2021
Btecs: Williamson refuses to u-turn on January exams
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Jan 6, 2021
BTECs: More colleges cancel January exams
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Jan 6, 2021
Teachers’ union backs government decision for January BTEC exams to go ahead
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Jan 6, 2021
Government says BTECs can be cancelled - just hours before pupils are due to sit first exams
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Jan 6, 2021
DfE backtracks: Schools and colleges left to decide whether BTECs go ahead
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DfE
Jan 5, 2021
Pressure mounts on Williamson after BTec exams reversal
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Robert Halfon
Jan 5, 2021
DfE backtracks: schools and colleges left to decide whether BTECs go ahead
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Jan 5, 2021
Exam boards call for this month’s BTECs to be cancelled
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Jan 5, 2021
Lockdown: 'Why haven't our BTec exams been cancelled too?'
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Jan 5, 2021
BTECS: Petition against January exams reaches 100,000
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Jan 5, 2021
BTECs: Dismay at DfE decision on January exams
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Jan 5, 2021
Btecs: Colleges decide to cancel January exams
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Jan 5, 2021
BTEC and other vocational exams to go ahead this week despite national lockdown, DfE confirms
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Jan 4, 2021
Ministers have once again proven that FE is an afterthought for this government
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Dec 16, 2020
Lack of support for January exams 'unforgivable'
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Dec 15, 2020
Government called on to ‘urgently’ set out January exam adaptations
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Dec 15, 2020
Supporting BTEC Learners following Department for Education (DfE) announcement
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Dec 3, 2020
Nominations are open for the 11th Annual BTEC Awards
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Nov 30, 2020
BTEC Awards 2021 - Celebrating 10 years of the BTEC awards! (pdf)
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Nov 24, 2020
BTEC Approach to Adaptation to Delivery and Assessment in 20/21
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Nov 2, 2020
New research demonstrates that BTECs are preparing the next generation of healthcare workers, providing vital pipeline into careers such as nursing
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Nov 2, 2020
Update to timetabling and entry deadline for BTEC
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Oct 14, 2020
Ofqual calls time on estimated grades for BTECs and other vocational qualifications
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VTQs
Sep 7, 2020
BTec students still waiting for grades weeks after results scandal
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Sep 2, 2020
Ofqual chair apologises for BTEC results delays
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Sep 2, 2020
BTEC results: All but 'tiny percentage' receive grades
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Aug 28, 2020
Schools cry foul over missing BTEC results
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Aug 28, 2020
Colleges and schools cry foul over missing vocational results
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Aug 28, 2020
Exams row: BTec students begin receiving revised grades
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Aug 25, 2020
BTec students begin receiving revised grades
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Results
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Aug 25, 2020
BTEC students to finally receive their revised grades
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Aug 25, 2020
BTec students to begin receiving revised results after delay ‘chaos’
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Aug 25, 2020
BTEC results: Final grades to be issued by 28 August
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Aug 21, 2020
Pearson confirm final deadline for revised BTEC grades
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Aug 21, 2020
In the news 21 August 2020
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University admissions
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Aug 21, 2020
Summer GCSE, AS and A level results 2020: information for students
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Aug 21, 2020
Results delay means BTec students are missing out on apprenticeships and uni
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Aug 21, 2020
Exam results: Delays to Btec results threaten degree hopes
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Aug 21, 2020
GCSE results: Year 11 students celebrate record grades after algorithm U-turn... but farce continues for BTec students
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Aug 20, 2020
Fresh exams ‘chaos’ as BTEC results pulled while pupils get revised GCSE grades
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Aug 20, 2020
UCU response to BTEC and GCSE results chaos
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Aug 20, 2020
Statement on BTec grades delay
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Aug 20, 2020
Btecs were delayed because they would have missed out on grade inflation, minister says
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Aug 20, 2020
‘Too little too late’: Protesters to call for Gavin Williamson to resign, as tens of thousands await BTec results
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Gavin Williamson
Aug 20, 2020
GCSE and BTEC students paying the price, says UCU
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Aug 20, 2020
Pupils get record GCSE grades as BTecs are pulled
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Aug 20, 2020
BTec Nationals and Firsts: What went wrong with the grades?
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Aug 20, 2020
BTEC board axes plans to announce grades with just 18 hours notice
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Aug 20, 2020
Half a million BTEC students told: You won’t get results on time
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Aug 20, 2020
Pupils get GCSE grades as BTec results are pulled
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Aug 20, 2020
BTEC results chaos as tens of thousands of students will not get their grades today
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Aug 20, 2020
Exam results: Btec grades are withdrawn for changes on eve of results day
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Aug 20, 2020
BTec results pulled at last minute as UK exam chaos continues
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Aug 19, 2020
Students face fresh chaos as BTEC grades pulled in last minute U-turn
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Aug 19, 2020
BTec grades pulled on eve of results day
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Aug 19, 2020
BTec exam board joins grades U-turn to use teacher assessment
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Aug 19, 2020
More education turmoil as grades for BTec students delayed
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Aug 19, 2020
BTEC grades pulled at last minute in latest exams u-turn
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Aug 19, 2020
Hundreds of thousands of students will not get results on Thursday as fallout from exam fiasco continues
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Aug 19, 2020
Pearson announces eleventh-hour grading U-turn on BTECs – telling colleges not to issue results tomorrow
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Aug 19, 2020
Statement from Cindy Rampersaud on regrading of BTEC qualifications
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Aug 19, 2020
Update on BTEC grading
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Aug 19, 2020
Pearson announces eleventh-hour grading U-turn on BTECs – telling schools not to issue results tomorrow
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Results day
Aug 19, 2020
BTECs: Pearson pledges to review all calculated grades
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Aug 19, 2020
Steve Rotheram slams 'incomprehensible' BTec results delay
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Aug 19, 2020
500 students still awaiting BTEC results
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Aug 19, 2020
BTEC results are usually a reason for celebration, not this year
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Aug 19, 2020
Chief Exec of Association of Colleges admits there's a 'snobbery' around BTec qualifications
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Aug 19, 2020
Btecs take teacher assessments too
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Aug 19, 2020
Schools frustrated as BTec results caught up in exams fiasco
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Aug 18, 2020
'I feel like BTecs are invisible': Southampton student on results downgrade
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Aug 18, 2020
BTec students still 'feel forgotten about' after 'unfair' results day
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Aug 18, 2020
Downgraded BTEC pupils to be given their predicted grades as part of exam U-turn
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Aug 18, 2020
BTec students wait for answers after being left out of the government's exams u-turn
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Aug 18, 2020
BTECs: Up to 5,000 grades to be reviewed
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Aug 18, 2020
Pearson corrects education secretary over false BTEC downgrades claim
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Aug 18, 2020
Pearson corrects education secretary on BTEC downgrades, saying only 0.5 per cent of results were moderated down
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Aug 18, 2020
BTec Nationals: Who are the students who didn't just do A-levels?
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Aug 18, 2020
Two per cent of BTEC results were downgraded, says Williamson
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Aug 18, 2020
BTEC students left out of exam grades U-turn still need answers
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Aug 18, 2020
Education secretary ‘hoping’ BTEC results can be included in grading U-turn
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Aug 17, 2020
Education Secretary hopeful BTEC results will be included in grading U-turn
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Aug 17, 2020
Manchester Mayor reaffirms legal threat after grading U-turn excludes BTEC results
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Aug 17, 2020
BTec missing results: 'We've been forgotten about'
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Aug 17, 2020
Delayed BTEC results: Students told to contact Pearson
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Aug 17, 2020
Exam results: Some BTec students still do not have grades
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BTECs
Results
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Aug 17, 2020
Exam board gave entire classes of law students each other's grades
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Aug 14, 2020
Results day: BTEC students may be waiting for results
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BTECs
Results day
Aug 13, 2020
CBI responds to Btec results day
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BTECs
Results day
Aug 13, 2020
BTEC results: Future key workers can take next steps
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Results day
Aug 13, 2020
Key workers of tomorrow are taking their first steps today
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BTECs
Results day
Aug 13, 2020
BTEC results day: 250,000 students to get results
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Results day
Aug 13, 2020
BTec students are 'hopeful for the future'
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Results day
Aug 13, 2020
BTEC results day 2020: 'There is a shadow of doubt'
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BTECs
Results day
Aug 12, 2020
How will I get my A-level, GCSE or BTec exam results this year?
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GCSEs
BTECs
Results day
Aug 10, 2020
Profile: Cindy Rampersaud - Pearson's BTEC champion
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BTECs
Jul 24, 2020
Pearson and Amazon Web Services develop first Cloud Computing BTEC Higher National qualifications to help address the cloud computing skills gap
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Digital skills
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Jun 30, 2020
Pearson unveils 2020 BTEC award winners in its first ever online awards ceremony
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Jun 25, 2020
Pearson BTEC Awards 2020
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Online learning
Jun 22, 2020
British Esports Association partners with Pearson to offer world’s first BTEC qualification in esports
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Apr 29, 2020
New esports BTEC to be taught from September
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Apr 24, 2020
Decision on how to grade thousands of BTECs and other quals left to awarding bodies
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Apr 24, 2020
Coronavirus: Schools will grade BTECs, says Ofqual
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Apr 9, 2020
Ofqual to announce teachers will ‘calculate’ BTEC and other qual results but delay detail
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Apr 9, 2020
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Feb 26, 2020
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Feb 14, 2020
Williamson to scrap 5,000 qualifications, but BTECs review delayed
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Feb 13, 2020
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Jan 17, 2020
Reformed BTECs still produce higher grades than A-levels
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Jan 17, 2020
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Jan 17, 2020
Pearson publishes the 2019 BTEC results data
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Nov 6, 2019
Response to BBC story about minicab driver qualifications
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Nov 4, 2019
Protect BTECs and boost sixth-form cash, say colleges
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Nov 4, 2019
MAT looked at cutting MFL and boosting BTECs for P8
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Oct 10, 2019
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Sep 26, 2019
Why BTECs should not be replaced by T levels
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Sep 9, 2019
BTECs 'very important', insists Williamson
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Sep 5, 2019
We’re learning to stop being education snobs
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Aug 24, 2019
BTec courses: A-level reforms trigger rise in private schools’ practical qualifications
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Aug 24, 2019
Should BTECs be saved to preserve choice?
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Aug 23, 2019
Changes to Pearson Technical Award grade boundaries August 2019
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Aug 21, 2019
BTECs: Some students to receive 'revised' grades
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Aug 20, 2019
Pearson will issue ‘revised grades’ for some BTEC pupils who missed re-sit chance
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Aug 20, 2019
Pearson: We apologise for not being clear on BTEC changes - but it’s the right call
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Aug 20, 2019
BTECs: Ofqual hits out at 'uncertainty and frustration'
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Aug 19, 2019
Response to Pearson changes to BTEC grading criteria 2019
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Aug 19, 2019
Students could lose college places after BTec grade boundaries changed
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Aug 19, 2019
ASCL comment on changes to BTEC Tech Award grade boundaries
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Aug 19, 2019
Ofqual: ‘Significant lessons to be learned’ from Pearson’s BTEC Tech Awards saga
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Aug 19, 2019
BTEC students could face lower grades, reveals Pearson
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Aug 19, 2019
Pearson hikes grade boundaries for BTEC Tech Awards
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Aug 19, 2019
Thousands of students receive BTEC results
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Aug 14, 2019
BTec Nationals: Who are the students who didn't just do A-levels?
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Aug 14, 2019
BTec results: Vocational qualifications 'not an easy option'
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Aug 14, 2019
Max Whitlock: My BTEC was key to becoming an Olympian
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Aug 14, 2019
BTECs: Entries rise despite doubts over future
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Aug 14, 2019
Crack down on low quality qualifications such as floristry and horse management as Government axes their funding
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Jul 22, 2019
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Jul 22, 2019
Funding axed for more than 160 level 3 qualifications
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Jul 22, 2019
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Jul 22, 2019
DfE confirms popular BTECs amongst qualifications facing funding axe
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76 BTECs facing the axe in post-16 qualifications review
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Jul 22, 2019
BTEC award winners 2019 unveiled
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Jul 4, 2019
Lord Baker: 'Preserve choice' by saving BTECs
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Jun 14, 2019
Retain choice in post-16 qualifications, say employers
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Jun 14, 2019
Give 16-year-olds more choice - employers
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Jun 12, 2019
Don't take axe to applied generals, says exam boards
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Jun 11, 2019
Ending BTECs could lead to students dropping out of education
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Jun 10, 2019
Scrapping BTECs 'could make student grades worthless'
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Jun 10, 2019
Edge recommends radical rethink in response to government’s level 3 consultation
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Jun 6, 2019
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Jun 5, 2019
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Jun 4, 2019
Lothian schoolgirl's sign design could make life easier for people with 'hidden' disabilities
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Jun 4, 2019
Ofqual: Removing access to BTECs risks creating ‘barrier’ to student progress
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Jun 4, 2019
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Apr 1, 2019
Don’t kill off BTECs just to bolster T levels
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Mar 28, 2019
Scrapping popular qualification would be reckless
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Mar 27, 2019
Scrapping BTECs 'rash and reckless', warn principals
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Mar 27, 2019
Government consults on plans to withdraw funding for BTECs
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Mar 19, 2019
Government consults on plans to withdraw funding for applied generals including BTECs
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Mar 19, 2019
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Mar 12, 2019
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Mar 8, 2019
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Feb 1, 2019
Evidence of grade inflation in applied generals, says Ofqual
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Dec 12, 2018
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Dec 12, 2018
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Dec 12, 2018
Long-term outcomes: How did life turn out for those who took Level 3 BTEC qualifications?
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Nov 20, 2018
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Nov 5, 2018
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Sep 26, 2018
Year 13 exam results show breadth of education
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Aug 25, 2018
What next after GCSEs? A guide to apprenticeships, BTECs and NVQs
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Aug 22, 2018
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Aug 21, 2018
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Aug 19, 2018
MillionPlus comment on A level and BTEC results day
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Aug 16, 2018
A level and BTec results day 2018 - Sector response
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Aug 16, 2018
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Aug 13, 2018
Extra exam resits offered for BTEC students
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Aug 3, 2018
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Jul 5, 2018
Matt Piper: Former Leicester and Sunderland winger spent months drinking two litres of whiskey everyday but now runs his own school and YouTube channel
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Jun 21, 2018
BTEC snobbery and class prejudice is alive in our moribund HE sector
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Jun 13, 2018
Universities now admitting twice as many BTEC students as they did a decade ago, figures show
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Jun 4, 2018
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May 15, 2018
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May 2, 2018
Richer data tells us more about students in higher education
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Apr 6, 2018
Ampleforth School will offer Btecs
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Mar 2, 2018
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Half of white working-class and black British students in England get into university with vocational qualifications such as BTECs
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Jan 29, 2018
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Jan 29, 2018
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Jan 25, 2018
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Dec 13, 2017
Final exam results do not yet show full picture, says Education Secretary
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Dec 6, 2017
Students with BTECs do worse at university – here's how we close the gap | Angus Holford
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Nov 29, 2017
Schools open 3-year sixth forms to boost pupil numbers
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Oct 9, 2017
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Aug 26, 2017
Top schools push pupils away from universities
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Aug 26, 2017
Leader: New Vocation
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Aug 26, 2017
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Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 18 August 2017
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Small sixth forms are no longer viable
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May 16, 2017
Government decides to retain Applied General qualifications
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Mar 28, 2017
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Mar 28, 2017
Applied General qualifications to remain
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Mar 27, 2017
Outrage at decision to widen admissions for small sixth form
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Feb 23, 2017
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Feb 23, 2017
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Feb 23, 2017
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BTEC: why it’s important to Universities, Employers, Students…and Pearson too
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Nov 18, 2016
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Nov 18, 2016
Vocational and academic: a false dichotomy (New pathways for technical education)
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Oct 31, 2016
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