A-Levels may be scrapped (still... or is it again?)

This issue seems to have been going on forever, we probably still don't know what is actually going to happen. However I heard an interesting news report on Radio 4's PM that discussed the issue. All the more interesting, considering that I thought the Tomlinson Report was not considered all that credible.

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QIA a success - but may be streamlined

The Quality Improvement Agency (QIA), set up by the government to "streamline" efforts to raise the game across further education, has announced a saving of £23m in its first year of operations.

The quango, which might itself fall victim to streamlining if colleges are granted self-regulation by government, says it is making an impact on almost every college and training company in the country.

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Related News Websites

Your tutor probably drummed into you the importance of keeping up with the latest developments in industry, you know, that national and international viewpoint we need to be analysing against.

Anyway, here are a few news sites that might augment your reading in the Times Ed, and the FE Focus:

http://www.fenews.co.uk/
http://www.tes.co.uk/
http://education.guardian.co.uk/further/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/default.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/education/education_news/

Dig in...

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