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Newcastle College student wins prestigious prize at 2022 BTEC Awards

Tahreema Khan was named BTEC Art and Design Learner of the Year at Pearson headquarters in London

Chronicle Live

How Pearson is using technology to reinvent itself in a post-textbook world

Corporate training and certifications are starting to replace Pearson's declining textbook revenue.

Fortune

Five-year-old with rare illness dies in Glasgow hospital after cancer misdiagnosis

Little Emily McDowall's mum has spoken out following a catalogue of failings at the hospital before her little girl's death, including the wrong diagnosis, and 17 infections she was never told about.

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Scots mum slams £842million hospital after infections leading to daughter's death hidden

Emily’s family are speaking out for the first time and have shared a bombshell dossier which outline issues with her care.

Daily Record

Tech trend creates surge in emerging sciences

Information technology was among the fields of education that recorded strongest growth in applications in 2021.

The Canberra Times

BTec results delay ‘left pupils feeling like second-class citizens’, MP suggests

Chairman of the education committee Robert Halfon was critical of exam boards after thousands did not receive their results on August 18.

The Independent UK

Exam board leaders apologise to teenagers for the ‘distress’ of missing grades

Apology in front of MPs came after many taking vocational qualifications failed to be given grades on results days in August

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Reece Group sells two main defence firms to global giant to trigger major investment and job creation

The acquisition of Pearson Engineering and Responsive Engineering will lead to a big increase in the number of jobs in Newcastle

Birmingham Post

Turns Out Women-Dominated Jobs Are The Most Likely To Be Replaced By Automation Bc Ofc They Are

It'd be nice to catch a fkn break!

Pedestrian.tv

Women in industries under threat from AI and automation urged to 'upskill'

That's according to new research by an Australian teaching organisation that's urging people to upskill so they don't find themselves out of work.

ABC News

Calls for watchdog to investigate delays to BTec results

Further education and sixth form colleges ask why thousands of students have not received grades from exam board Pearson

The Guardian - UK

Thousands more BTec students hit by delays as exam board apologises

Pearson said some 5,700 students registered for the qualification were currently ineligible to receive their grade

The Independent UK

Covid disruption must still be taken into account in 2023 GCSEs, say schools

Calls for mitigation measures to remain come on day 2022 grades show downturn in line with official policy

The Guardian - UK

Exam results could be broken down into boys, girls and non-binary students

The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) said it is ‘looking at this’ possibility.

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Thousands more BTec students told their results may be delayed

Exam board Pearson blames delays to results in England, due on Thursday, on qualification ‘ineligibility’

Wales Online

Thousands of GCSE students face results delay, says Pearson exam board

Pearson said thousands of students are currently "ineligible" to receive their results. It follows delays last week when A-Level students were set to receive their results.

The Independent UK

Thousands more students face results delays, warns exam board Pearson

Students across the country are awaiting GCSE grades on Thursday, as well as BTec results.

Wales Online

Anger as some Btec students still yet to receive results

The situation has been described as 'completely unacceptable'

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The Independent UK

Ofqual to review why some students still waiting for results

The exams regulator in England confirmed that while “good progress” was being made, some awarding organisations were still processing results.

The Independent UK

Btec results delay leaves students ‘in limbo’ and unable to confirm university places

Hundreds of students still yet to receive results, exam board confirms

The Independent UK

‘Not good enough’: BTec students left in limbo without results days after they were due to be published

Students left unable to confirm university places, with estimate that thousands are affected by delay

Wales Online

BTec exam board says sorry after students do not receive results

Some have been left unable to confirm their university offers

The Independent UK

Exam board apologises to students still wating for BTec results

The exact number still waiting for news is unknown.

Input

Pearson plans NFT textbooks for resale profit extortion

Because what else is the blockchain for if not making money in a spectacularly underhanded fashion?

The Guardian - UK

Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs

Educational publisher’s move into non-fungible tokens is intended to claw back some of the income lost to secondhand sales

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