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  • Matthew Hancock: Association of Colleges conference 2013

    Matthew Hancock spoke to the Association of Colleges conference on traineeships, apprenticeships, standards and qualifications.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New funding for colleges to improve broadband infrastructure

    Matthew Hancock announces programme to drive through improvements to broadband infrastructure and provision for further education colleges.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Maths free school competition winners congratulated

    The first 2 specialist maths free schools ran a competition for gifted mathematicians and the Education Secretary gave out the prizes.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Michael Gove letter to Christine Blower and Chris Keates

    Michael Gove has written again to Christine Blower and Chris Keates about an invitation to talks.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • British and Uzbek academia discuss quality in higher education

    On 18 November Tashkent hosted the International Round Table Enhancing the Quality Culture in Higher Education.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Local authorities failing children who are missing education

    Too many children are either missing out on full-time education or not getting the part-time education they are entitled to.

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  • Changes to early entry at GCSE

    From 29 September 2013, only a student’s first entry to a GCSE examination will count in their school’s performance tables.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Elizabeth Truss speech to the ASCL/Microsoft conference

    Education Minister Elizabeth Truss on the importance of computing at the Association of School and College Leaders/Microsoft conference.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Music hubs fail to improve music education for all

    New 'music hubs' approach not successful enough in improving music education for all children in schools, according to Ofsted report.

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  • New funding for military ethos projects

    DfE grants £4.8 million to projects led by ex-armed forces personnel to tackle underachievement by disengaged pupils.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Matthew Hancock: strengthening vocational education - Skills Show 2013

    Matthew Hancock delivers a keynote speech to the Skills Show 2013 about how government is strengthening vocational education.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New FE Commissioner to tackle poor performing FE colleges

    Skills and Enterprise Minister Matthew Hancock announces that Dr David Collins CBE will take the new post of Further Education Commissioner

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Michael Gove letter to Christine Blower and Chris Keates

    Michael Gove has written to Christine Blower and Chris Keates about an invitation to talks.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Work experience provides employment opportunities

    Young people in the UK are being encouraged to participate in work experience schemes in order to boost their chances of employment

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • David Laws speech at the Teaching Leaders graduation ceremony

    Schools Minister David Laws spoke at the Teaching Leaders graduation ceremony.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Ofsted inspections: Lord Nash writes to Baroness Jones

    A letter from Lord Nash to Baroness Jones about Ofsted inspections.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Implementing rigour and responsiveness in skills

    Update on how we are implementing improvements in skills for better quality further education.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • What do you think about our website content?

    Can you help us make the content for our schools and children’s services workforces better?

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • 150,000 children to receive help from promising teaching leaders

    Extra funding to develop teaching leaders announced by Schools Minister.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Ofsted reports to Suffolk County Council after inspections

    Following focused inspections of 33 Suffolk schools in September 2013, Ofsted has written to Suffolk County Council with its findings.

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