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Policy Corner, 17 November 2014

By Andrew Gladstone-Heighton, Policy Leader, Monday 17 November 2014

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Agency review puts 1,600 quals in the funding firing line (p3) – The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has listed ‘nearly 700’ qualifications it will remove from public funding and a further 972 at risk of losing their fundable status in its Annual Review of Qualifications, published on its website. The Agency has published the lists of qualifications with 100 funded enrolments a year or fewer, with a call for Awarding Organisations who want to keep these qualifications funded to make their case by the 4 December.

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Policy Corner - 3 November 2014

By Andrew Gladstone-Heighton, Policy Leader, Monday 03 November 2014

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‘Dramatic changes’ lie ahead with Progress 8 (p6) – The forthcoming changes to school performance tables could lead to ‘hundreds’ of schools facing government intervention. Research by the Fischer Family Trust has measured schools performance in 2013 against the new ‘Progress 8’ target (which measures schools students’ progress across a broader range of 8 subjects); under this regime 325 schools would fail to meet the new minimum standards.

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Policy Corner - 9 October 2014

By Andrew Gladstone-Heighton, Policy Leader, Tuesday 07 October 2014

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More than one angle on GCSE grading (p7) Last week saw the announcement of the new GCSE grading system, which will support the introduction of new qualifications starting in 2015. The current A to G scale will be replaced with a 9-1 numerical system, with grade 4 being equivalent to a grade C, grade 7 to a grade A and the new ‘uber-grade’ 9 given to strictly controlled group of top performers.

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Let’s get Technical

By Andrew Gladstone-Heighton, Policy Leader, Thursday 31 July 2014

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In amongst the range of announcements made over the past month was a major ‘launch’ from the Department for Education, who finalised their technical guidance for Vocational Qualifications which would contribute to performance tables at Key Stage 4. Rather confusingly, qualifications that meet these requirements will be known as ‘Technical Awards’, different to already-announced ‘Technical Levels’, (which are vocational qualifications that contribute to performance tables for 16-18 year old learners).

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General Election: 9 months to go…

By Andrew Gladstone-Heighton, Policy Leader, Thursday 31 July 2014

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The past couple of months have seen the initial education and skills battle lines being drawn for the 2015 General Election: The most surprising announcement was July’s Cabinet reshuffle in which Michael Gove was replaced as Secretary of State for Education by the relatively unknown former Treasury minister and Minister for Women Nicky Morgan (view her political background and voting record here).

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Policy Corner - 28 July 2014

By Andrew Gladstone-Heighton, Policy Leader, Tuesday 29 July 2014

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It’s all change at the top. Time for a fresh start? (p7) – its ‘all change’ in Education and Skills world, with new Ministers Nicky Morgan and Nick Boles replacing Michael Gove and Matthew Hancock. The TES article looks at the legacy Nicky is set to inherit at the Department for Education, where ‘she faces the tough task of making her predecessors reforms work on the ground.

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Policy Corner - 23 June

By Andrew Gladstone-Heighton, Policy Leader, Wednesday 25 June 2014

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Here’s your weekly round-up summarising the top education stories from the sector’s press including FE Week and the TES. FE Week 16 June

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Policy Corner - 9 June 2014

By Andrew Gladstone-Heighton, Policy Leader, Wednesday 11 June 2014

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Here’s your weekly round-up summarising the top education stories from the sector’s press including FE Week and the TES. Bosses face apprenticeship bill of up to £9K

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Policy Corner - 28 May 2014

By Andrew Gladstone-Heighton, Policy Leader, Wednesday 28 May 2014

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Are you up to the new standards? There’s going to be a new set of professional standards for teachers and trainers in Further Education (FE) – 20 ‘inspirational’ standards based on improving teacher practice are being published by the Education and Training Foundation (ETF).These standards will be referred to by Ofsted in their inspections and in informing their judgements, and aren’t intended to be a prescriptive checklist, but rather ‘to be owned by the teaching workforce…based on the model of the reflective practitioner’.

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The Future of Apprenticeships in England

By Andrew Gladstone-Heighton, Policy Leader, Wednesday 30 April 2014

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NCFE has been hard at work on our response to this important consultation which has now been submitted to the Government. So, what did we have to say?

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