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Guide for teachers and heads explaining GCSE and A level grading: how marking works, how grade boundaries are set, and how student grades are determined fairly.
A comparative tool to help local authorities plan for future high needs spend and provision.
Subject content, aims and learning objectives for GCSE in religious studies for teaching from 2016.
Subject content, aims and learning objectives for GCSE media studies for teaching from 2017.
Subject content, aims and learning objectives for GCSE in business for teaching from 2017.
Rules and regulations for GCSEs (9 to 1) in English language.
Funding for learning providers, employers and other organisations to develop flexible and accessible ways to teach adults.
The Department for Education's approach to supporting and regulating academy trusts.
Guide to the submission process
Sets out the funding rules for the community-based contracts for the National Careers Service.
A guide to the national plan for music education and how to get help for parents, carers and young people.
Pearson has agreed to pay a fine of £750,000 over failure to identify and reduce the risk of inconsistency in grading standards over GCSE English.
Important dates for payments, publications, and local authority actions in the 2025 to 2026 financial year.
This document is part of a suite of documents which sets out our regulatory requirements for awarding organisations offering apprenticeship assessments.
A guide to Advanced Learner Loans terms and conditions for learners starting a course between 1 August 2024 and 31 July 2025
Guidance on how to use the quality assurance framework and maturity model to assess and improve quality assurance processes across an organisation.
How we produce statistics on pupil absence in schools.
Confirmed apprenticeship end-point assessments (EPAs) for standards regulated by Ofqual.
Guide for parents and carers about raising concerns regarding an academy’s handling of complaints.
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