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Williamson slammed for ‘ignoring’ concerns about scrapping BTECs
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Btecs were delayed because they would have missed out on grade inflation, minister says
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‘Too little too late’: Protesters to call for Gavin Williamson to resign, as tens of thousands await BTec results
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BTEC board axes plans to announce grades with just 18 hours notice
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Students face fresh chaos as BTEC grades pulled in last minute U-turn
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BTec grades pulled on eve of results day
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Pearson announces eleventh-hour grading U-turn on BTECs – telling colleges not to issue results tomorrow
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  • Aug 19, 2020
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  • Aug 19, 2020
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  • Aug 18, 2020
'I feel like BTecs are invisible': Southampton student on results downgrade
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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
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  • Aug 18, 2020
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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
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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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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Exam results: Some BTec students still do not have grades
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  • Aug 14, 2020
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  • Aug 13, 2020
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BTec students are 'hopeful for the future'
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  • Aug 13, 2020
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  • Aug 12, 2020
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  • 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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  • Jun 30, 2020
Pearson unveils 2020 BTEC award winners in its first ever online awards ceremony
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  • Jun 25, 2020
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  • 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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Decision on how to grade thousands of BTECs and other quals left to awarding bodies
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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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Coronavirus: Schools will grade BTECs, says Ofqual
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Ofqual to announce teachers will ‘calculate’ BTEC and other qual results but delay detail
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Pearson BTEC Awards 2020
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Ofsted: ‘Mass entry to BTECs is not always gaming’
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  • Feb 14, 2020
Williamson to scrap 5,000 qualifications, but BTECs review delayed
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  • Feb 13, 2020
Reformed BTECs still produce higher grades than A-levels
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  • Jan 17, 2020
Reformed BTECs still produce higher grades than A-levels
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  • Jan 17, 2020
The equivalence of A-Levels and reformed BTECs
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Pearson publishes the 2019 BTEC results data
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  • Nov 6, 2019
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  • Nov 4, 2019
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  • Nov 4, 2019
MAT looked at cutting MFL and boosting BTECs for P8
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  • Oct 10, 2019
Pearson apologises after BTEC gaffe hits schools’ progress 8 scores
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  • Sep 26, 2019
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  • Aug 24, 2019
BTec courses: A-level reforms trigger rise in private schools’ practical qualifications
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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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Pearson: We apologise for not being clear on BTEC changes - but it’s the right call
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  • Aug 19, 2019
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BTEC students could face lower grades, reveals Pearson
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Pearson hikes grade boundaries for BTEC Tech Awards
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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
BTEC award winners 2019 unveiled
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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 12, 2019
Don't take axe to applied generals, says exam boards
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Ending BTECs could lead to students dropping out of education
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Scrapping popular qualification would be reckless
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Scrapping BTECs 'rash and reckless', warn principals
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  • Mar 12, 2019
Chief Regulator and Chair of exams and qualifications regulator questioned
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  • Dec 12, 2018
Exams boards told to ‘strengthen controls’ after ‘unwarranted’ rise in BTEC grades
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  • Nov 20, 2018
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  • Aug 21, 2018
'There's more to post-16 education than A levels'
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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
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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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  • May 15, 2018
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  • Jan 29, 2018
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
Half of pupils from poorer backgrounds who get into university did so by studying alternative qualifications to A-levels
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  • Jan 29, 2018
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  • Jan 28, 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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  • Nov 29, 2017
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  • Aug 26, 2017
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  • Aug 18, 2017
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  • Aug 18, 2017
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  • Aug 17, 2017
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  • Aug 17, 2017
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  • Aug 14, 2017
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  • Jul 6, 2017
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  • Jun 19, 2017
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  • May 16, 2017
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  • Mar 28, 2017
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  • Mar 28, 2017
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  • Mar 16, 2017
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  • Feb 23, 2017
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  • Nov 27, 2016
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