BTec

BTEC students will begin receiving their revised marks from today

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BTEC students will finally begin receiving their results from today, after the exam board delayed the release of marks for almost 500,000 pupils last week to ensure they weren’t unfairly penalised compared to those taking A-levels and GCSEs.  Grading for the vocational qualifications was delayed to give exam board Pearson more time to recalculate the … Read more

New BTEC results chaos as board AXES plans to announce grades tomorrow with just 18 hours notice 

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Exam board Pearson has pulled its BTEC results less than 24 hours before releasing them, sparking a fresh round of results chaos for nearly half a million pupils.  Pearson, the provider of BTECs, told schools and colleges not to publish level 1 and 2 results in the vocational qualifications to give them time to re-grade … Read more

Chief Exec of Association of Colleges admits there’s a ‘snobbery’ around BTec qualifications

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The chief executive of the Association of Colleges has admitted there is a ‘snobbery’ around BTec qualifications, and apologised to students who are still missing their exam results.    David Hughes, from Loughborough, appeared on This Morning today, where he lamented the ‘terrible situation’ some students have been left in, and confessed that a there is ‘definite … Read more