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Government plans to remove funding for thousands of courses, such as BTECs, that compete with T Levels and A-levels risk destabilising the qualifications market and adversely narrowing student choice, Ofqual has warned. The exams regulator has today raised a number of concerns in response to the Department for Education’s level 3 qualifications review. The DfE […]

Education secretary Gavin Williamson has this morning outlined his expectation for how exams will be replaced this year. In a letter to exams regulator Ofqual, he said that grades should be issued “as late as possible”, with teacher assessments only changed as apart of the moderation process in the “exception”, and wants the idea of […]

The Department for Education has said this evening that schools and colleges can now cancel BTEC assessments due to take place this month, but has left it up to leaders to decide. After last night’s announcement to close schools and cancel exams, the department insisted that vocational exams due to take place in January would […]

The BBC will provide the “biggest education offer in its history” in a bid to ensure homebound children without internet access can keep learning. From next week, the BBC will run a three-block of primary school programming on CBBC from 9am – including BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily, as well as other educational […]

Pressure is ramping up on the government to cancel vocational exams in England this month after exam bodies – including the one that runs BTECs – joined calls for them to be scrapped. Federation of Awarding Bodies chief executive Tom Bewick has today written to apprenticeships and skills minister Gillian Keegan, in a letter seen […]

In a dramatic speech broadcast live on TV this evening, prime minister Boris Johnson announced schools in England will now be closed to most children until at least mid February, with this summer’s exams also cancelled. This was from a man who had just a day earlier professed he had “no doubt” that schools were […]

BTEC and other vocational exams will still go ahead this month despite the new national lockdown restrictions, the Department for Education has confirmed tonight. The prime minister Boris Johnson announced this evening that schools and colleges will move to remote learning for most students from tomorrow and that summer exams will “not go ahead as normal”. […]

All London primary schools will now stay closed after another chaotic U-turn by education secretary Gavin Williamson on back-to-school plans he announced just 48-hours ago. The Guardian reported the decision was made following an emergency Cabinet Office meeting today. Several London boroughs had been missed off a list of 50 Covid hotspots where primary schools […]

The Department for Education is considering plans to make face masks compulsory in the classroom for pupils in year 7 and above, as well as their teachers, a government official said during a briefing on Covid plans. Such a move would mark a big shift for the government, with prime minister Boris Johnson previously stating […]