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The Guardian view on post-16 qualifications: the case for V-levels replacing BTecs is unproven

Editorial: Pausing the scrapping of existing qualifications was the right decision. But the wider battle over further education continues

The Guardian - UK

Ministers vow to tackle England’s ‘entrenched divides’ in A-level results

Better-off areas set pace for raised national grades but results in north-east remain below pre-pandemic levels

The Guardian - UK

London’s BSix college helped me gain qualifications and integrate into British society

Letter:Fatim Nikoulare, who came to the UK as an unaccompanied minor, is saddened by the loss of A-levels at a college that helps disadvantaged learners

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The threat to BTec courses in England is the educational scandal no one’s talking about

Snobbery and a lack of transparency around Labour’s review may be why there isn’t more outrage, says Guardian journalist Susanna Rustin

The Guardian - UK

‘Unbelievably proud’: Luton pupils celebrate A-level and BTec results

Nerves, elation and some disappointment for teenagers on Thursday, as college principal says BTecs should continue

The Guardian - UK

Ofsted has failed us for 30 years. Can it be fixed?

Letters: Bernard Clarke tries to imagine a better education system, while Rosalind Harrison reveals how Ofsted impacts apprenticeship providers. Plus letters from Dan Willis and Simon Clements

The Guardian - UK

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

Young people will ‘pay the price’ if plans to withdraw funding for a number of applied general qualifications, such as BTecs, go ahead, report warns.

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A-level grade boundaries 2024: Results day for AQA, OCR and Edexcel exam boards

Grade boundaries are released on the same day as students receive their results

The Independent UK

Tuesday briefing: How thousands of students will be hit by government-imposed ‘grade deflation’

In today’s newsletter: Pupils across the UK await the results of A-levels, BTecs and more – and face marked-down grades to restore ‘pre-pandemic grading’

The Guardian - UK

Inside Linfield Football Club's full-time academy and what it hopes to achieve

The programme launched last September and combines football with education

Belfast Live

Former education ministers attack plan to reduce vocational qualifications

Coalition fears DfE may break pledges that only small percentage of qualifications will be replaced by T-levels

The Guardian - UK

Love Island 2023 celebrity lookalikes from Khloe Kardashian to Joel Dommett

Love Island is back on screens and viewers cannot get enough of the show as a group of sexy singletons battle it out to win £50,000 – or to find love, but the cast looks very familiar

Daily Mirror

'I left school at 14 with no qualifications. Now my business makes £2m a year'

Jo Fisher went from being the 'first milkwoman in Manchester' to building her own theatre from scratch

Manchester Evening News

The battle for BTECs

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Chronicle Live

Newcastle College student wins prestigious prize at 2022 BTEC Awards

Tahreema Khan was named BTEC Art and Design Learner of the Year at Pearson headquarters in London

Belfast Live

Belfast student wins BTEC Award for Creative Media Learner of the Year and has short film picked up by BBC

Siomha McStay was applauded for her work-rate, creativity, and initative

The Conversation

T-Levels: more vocational courses roll out – but post-16 choices in England are still limited

The first cohort of students in England taking T-levels – the new vocational equivalent to A-levels – have completed their course, been assessed, and have received their results. Now more course options for T-levels are being rolled out. The initial offerings were in construction, digital production and education and childcare.…

The Independent UK

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

Chairman of the education committee Robert Halfon was critical of exam boards after thousands did not receive their results on August 18.

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Liverpool Echo

Inside Everton's efforts to ensure young players are not stranded without an education

Everton FC correspondent Joe Thomas looks at what the club is doing to support the education of its young stars, many of whom will not make it as professional players

The Guardian - UK

Methodology behind the Guardian University Guide 2023

The compiler of the Guardian university league tables explains the technicalities of the process

The Guardian - UK

Calls for watchdog to investigate delays to BTec results

Further education and sixth form colleges ask why thousands of students have not received grades from exam board Pearson

The Independent UK

Thousands more BTec students hit by delays as exam board apologises

Pearson said some 5,700 students registered for the qualification were currently ineligible to receive their grade

The Guardian - UK

Covid disruption must still be taken into account in 2023 GCSEs, say schools

Calls for mitigation measures to remain come on day 2022 grades show downturn in line with official policy

The Guardian - UK

Thousands more BTec students told their results may be delayed

Exam board Pearson blames delays to results in England, due on Thursday, on qualification ‘ineligibility’

Wales Online

Thousands of GCSE students face results delay, says Pearson exam board

Pearson said thousands of students are currently "ineligible" to receive their results. It follows delays last week when A-Level students were set to receive their results.

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