Popular BTECs and other applied general qualifications have been granted another funding extension as part of a “sustainable” ...

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

MINISTERS are facing growing calls to cancel vocational exams amid concerns over students’ safety and fairness. It comes as Boris Johnson said pushing ahead with all exams this summer “as normal” ...

Ministers say "bold reforms" for post-16 students will end snobbery and prepare students for work.

Sheffield students still don’t know if they have got into university because of delays getting their BTEC results – here’s what to do if you are stuck. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

Some BTec level 2 students will not get their results as expected on Thursday, an exam board has suggested. About 235,000 BTec Firsts, Technicals and Tech Award grades were scheduled to be sent to ...

The School of Business and Management's 'Step Ahead Plus’ transition programme is designed to support incoming students with Level 3 BTEC qualifications before and during their first year of studies.

Nearly half a million UK pupils face a fresh round of results chaos after exam board Pearson pulled its BTec results on the eve of releasing them. Pearson said it would be re-grading all its BTecs to ...

Poorer and ethnic minority students who take vocational qualifications are missing out on college places Top universities have been accused of “institutional snobbery” for failing to recognise ...

What a BTEC really means is that more time is invested in someone instead of them taking a class and writing an essay.” He echoes Sitpura’s sentiments about the access deficit that would result from ...

For thousands of BTec students, this year's results day came and went without an outcome - after a delay in issuing grades. For about 2,000 of them, the delay is dragging on, according to exam board ...