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When is A-level results day 2024?
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Each exam is graded on a scale from A* to E. Grade boundaries show the minimum number of marks you need for each grade. They are decided by examiners and published on results day. Qualification Wales, which oversees Welsh exams, has said there is still a risk that performance in some subjects has not fully…
How will the government change the way private school fees are taxed?
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Getty Images The Labour government has confirmed it will act on its manifesto commitment to change the way private school fees are taxed. The King’s Speech included plans to remove the current exemption from value added tax (VAT), which the government says will fund 6,500 new teachers in England. What are private schools and how…
Who gets 15 hours of free childcare and how do I apply?
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The government is offering a cash incentive of £600 to those who become childminders (or £1,200 for those joining via an agency). The Department for Education doesn’t yet have figures for the numbers who have signed up, but says childcare staffing rose by 4% across 2023 as a whole, external. However, the number of childminders…
Would a 1.40pm Friday finish stop teachers quitting?
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BBC/Hayley Clarke Tyra Packer’s anxiety has “completely disappeared” since she quit teaching The number of empty teaching posts in England has more than doubled in the past three years, the latest official figures reveal. The number of teachers has risen – but so has the number leaving. And the number of vacancies per 1,000 teachers…
Fourteen measures from the King’s Speech analysed by BBC experts
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BBC A raft of bills have been announced in the King’s Speech. Here BBC correspondents analyse some of the 39 potential new laws Keir Starmer’s government wants to pass. Banning no-fault evictions Housing is a priority area on which this government will be judged at the next election. A long-promised, but much-delayed, ban on no-fault…
What are T-levels and what are the grades worth?
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T-levels, introduced in 2020, are vocational qualifications aimed at 16-to-19-year-olds, external in England, which focus more on practical subjects than academic ones. Each course lasts two years and is roughly equivalent to three A-levels. The qualification includes a mixture of both classroom learning and on-the-job experience, with a work placement of at least 315 hours…