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Balls: Upping Diplomas on offer
Balls delays A-Level review to 2013

Education secretary Ed Balls is to postpone a review into A-Levels due next year until 2013. The minister explained yesterday the government was delaying the review in order to give the new Diploma system time to bed down. “It has been argued in the past that Diplomas could only be a success if A-Levels and… Read more »

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Govt rejects £500 maths A-level incentive

The government has rejected calls from education and industry leaders to pay students to take maths and science A-levels. A report from the Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE) proposed the £300-£500 incentive as a way to increase the number of people studying so-called STEM subjects at further education. The CIHE warns that the… Read more »