Grants for ‘middle-income’ students to be cut
The amount of student support available for children of middle-income parents will be cut next year, the universities secretary confirmed today.
Mike Baker Meets - Christine Blower
Mike Baker meets Christine Blower to dicuss teachers’ rights.
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Teenagers’ learning ‘dumbed down’
Today’s 14-year-old pupils are better at quick-fire answers, but much worse at complex questions than teenagers in the 1970s, research suggests.
Whitehall welcomes the first government apprentices
“No, they won’t have to wear bowler hats.”
The irritated tone in which this reply was given was entirely pardonable. It had not been an entirely serious question about whether Whitehall’s first ever apprentices would have to observe any special dress code.
But this is new territory. The fact that two government ministers and the head of [...]
Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley on the shortcomings of diplomas
Diplomas offer scant hope of an end to the great divide, say Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley
Work-based qualifications could lead to more dropouts
Report shows diplomas and apprenticeships could lead to more disaffected youths
Number of pupils starting new diploma qualification falls short of Balls’s hopes
Opposition MPs say diploma has ‘flopped’ after exam boards warned of technical problems and lack of teacher training
Meddling in the modern apprenticeship
A new report says ministers’ obsession with ‘qualification outcomes’ is damaging vocational learning. Ian Nash investigates
14-19 Shaping their own future?
The schools secretary announced plans for youngsters to have more say in shaping Diplomas.
He said a national 14-19 learner panel would be created, which would give young people a key role in giving their views that would develop national policy, would be set up by next spring.
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Government defends its progress on diplomas
Only 12,000 pupils started the government’s flagship diploma qualification this September, the schools secretary confirms
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