I spy @fcdwhittaker.bsky.social in this morning’s Playbook

Read his great story here 👉 schoolsweek.co.uk/lower-your-t...

Oof - big drop in GCSE English resit G4 pass rates for those taking the exam in November

Suspect it may be related to the Pearson 2.0 issue

Slight rise in maths pass rates

It's 'T Levels Celebration Week'!

DfE kicked it off on Monday by further relaxing rules for industry placements feweek.co.uk/dfe-eases-t-...

Beats last year when Rishi decided to use the week to announce his intention to abolish the quals (@ukshane.bsky.social had fun making that front page)

New figures show spending on level 7 apprenticeships stayed around the £235m mark over past 3 years

Gives a good sense of how much (c10% of programme budget) that's available to redirect to 'other priorities' if/when defunding goes ahead questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

*other than this trial to 'automatically reserve' a college place for disengaged young people

Graphic designers clearly felt the brunt of civil service cuts

NEET stats out today don't make for pretty reading

946,000 young people not in employment, education, or training - 13.2% of all 16-24s, up from 12.2% last quarter

Labour expected to set out plan for tackling the NEET problem in their Get Britain Working white paper before the New Year

Skills England launches 'initial engagement exercise' with employers in priority sectors on what non-apprenticeship training should be funded through the new growth and skills levy

Interesting choice of email to send evidence!

feweek.co.uk/priority-emp...