Two girls celebrating results

It’s A-level results day, and this year has seen more top grades achieved by students across England.

Young engineering apprentice with mentor

In this Senedd term alone, the Welsh government has supported 73,795 new apprenticeships and invested £144 million into young Welsh peoples’ futures.

School bag with construction hat

The government has unveiled new Technical Excellence Colleges, which will be situated up and down the country to train and deliver the workforce needed to build new homes, schools, and hospitals. 

Exam hall

Exam certificates are to be modernised and made digital from this summer onwards, as announced by the government.

Trainee engineers

A report into the perceptions of the best routes into engineering and technology amongst teaching professionals has found an even split between university and apprenticeships.

Students take exams in exam hall.

Ofqual has put forward a consultation to seek views on the ways it both supports compliance and takes regulatory action, which aim to support awarding organisations and ensure that enforcement action is fair.

Children sit an exam in an exam hall.

The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) will fine exam board Pearson £250,000 for breaking rules designed to protect students and exam integrity.

Students in a vocational lesson.

Yesterday, (12th December), the government laid out their plans for post-16 qualifications, which will aim to both protect both students choices while also streamlining the system.

The UK has seen a slower improvement in cutting the number of young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET) compared to other OECD countries, according to research.

CDI, the UK’s professional body for career development, has called for a greater focus on careers advice, saying that it has been undervalued in education policy for too long.

The Irish government aims to increase the number of Traveller and Roma children remaining in school to achieve a Leaving Certificate.

Education Select Committee chair calls for investigation into exams results delay

Exam board Pearson is to be questioned by MPs about why many students are still missing grades.

GCSE results day: Lower grades expected due to Covid

A similar pattern to last weeks A-level results is expected due to the turbulent circumstances of the pandemic.

Geoff Barton notes a 'worrying' decline in Creative Arts subjects

The General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders Geoff Barton has voiced concerns regarding the decline in creative arts subj

AQA staff on strike as GCSE results come in

It marks the fourth round of action in a dispute over pay and fire-and-rehire threats to staff

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