Education’s always changing, and it can be hard to keep track. Policy Watch is the easy way to make sure you stay up to date with the latest developments.
Policy Watch is our regular policy update service, covering national and international developments in the world of education. We try to keep things simple, sharing the latest news and information with you through weekly updates, monthly summaries, papers and events.
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As head of UK education policy at Pearson, Steve’s been running the Policy Watch service for almost 20 years. He’ll keep you informed on all things education, along with the rest of his subscribers – there were more than 10,000 at the last count!
A month which has seen the test and exam season in full swing, the government support the expansion of existing grammar schools, the Education Secretary start to tackle teacher workload and school accountability, T Level, Institute of Technology and maths centre development move up a gear, Oxbridge student intake come under scrutiny and new missions set for the Industrial Strategy.
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Welcome to Policy Eye, a weekly service from Policy Watch offering a regular round up of UK education headlines and stories from over the previous 7 days.
Welcome to Policy Eye, a weekly service from Policy Watch offering a regular round up of UK education headlines and stories from over the previous 7 days.
It’s been a month which has seen the Office for Students formally take its place in the HE landscape, a wave of critical reports greet the apprenticeship levy’s first birthday, the Education Committee announce important new inquiries on funding and SEND, Ofqual publish its latest annual survey on views of qualifications, and NFER tasked with developing the new reception baseline assessment tool.
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