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‘Not good enough’ for BTec students to be left in limbo without results

Students being left in “limbo” without exam results days after they were due to be published is “not good enough”, an education leader has said. Exam board Pearson apologised over the weekend as some students were still waiting for their BTec ...

22 Aug 2022 at 17:08

Exam board apologises to students still wating for BTec results

A BTec exam board has said it is “very sorry” that some students are still waiting for their results two days after they were due, leaving them unable to confirm university places. Hundreds of thousands of students received A-level, BTec and ...

20 Aug 2022 at 22:48

Thousands more students face results delays, warns exam board Pearson

Thousands of students could miss out on being issued results on Thursday as an exam board continues to deal with delays to grades being issued last week. Some 7,000 BTec (Business and Technology Education Council) students are “currently ...

24 Aug 2022 at 16:55

Ofqual to review why some students still waiting for results

The exams regulator is to review why some students have been left waiting days for their results after education leaders criticised awarding organisations for leaving students in limbo. Hundreds of thousands of students received A-level,...

22 Aug 2022 at 19:03

Thousands more BTec students hit by delays as exam board apologises

An exam board has apologised to students after thousands were deemed ineligible to be awarded grades on Thursday, a week after other pupils faced delays in getting results from the same awarding body. Pearson said some 5,700 students ...

25 Aug 2022 at 13:18

Many students will have no suitable course of study under ‘reckless’ BTec plans

Tens of thousands of sixth-form students could be left without a suitable study programme under the Government’s “reckless” plans to reform post-16 vocational qualifications, a report suggests. Young people will “pay the price” if ...

14 Sept 2023 at 00:01

Pause post-16 education shake-up or risk worsening skills shortages, warn MPs

The Government must pause its shake-up of post-16 qualifications or risk worsening the UK’s skills shortages, MPs have warned, as campaigners branded its proposed reforms “misguided” and “reckless”. Plans to withdraw funding from ...

28 Apr 2023 at 00:01

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Derry school partners with MU Foundation and Ulster University in new venture

MANCHESTER UNITED FOUNDATION AT ST. JOSEPH'S. . . . Mrs. Ciara Deane, Principal, St. Joseph's Boys School, Derry pictured welcoming Mr. John Shiels, Chief Executive Officer, Manchester United Foundation to the school on Thursday ...

10 Mar 2024 at 11:33

BTec results delay ‘left pupils feeling like second-class citizens’, MP suggests

The chairman of the education committee said issues which saw thousands of BTec pupils not receive their grades on results day left them “feeling like second class citizens.” Robert Halfon, the chairman of the cross-party ...

12 Oct 2022 at 16:07

End of BTECs could increase NHS vacancies, healthcare leaders warn

The Government has been warned by healthcare leaders that scrapping BTEC vocational qualifications could reduce the number of nurses. Danny Mortimer, deputy chief executive of the NHS Confederation, has written to new ...

13 Jul 2022 at 12:30

Brown: Government must boost rollout of T-levels to ‘enact revolution’

The new Labour Government must “boost” the rollout of T-levels to enact a technical education “revolution”, a former prime minister has said. Pausing the changeover of funding from lower quality to higher quality ...

16 Jul 2024 at 00:01

Bridget Phillipson announces ‘pause and review’ of planned cuts to BTec courses

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said the Government will be pausing planned funding cuts for a number of applied general qualifications (AGQs), such as BTecs. AGQs are Level 3 qualifications, which ...

24 Jul 2024 at 16:16

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