We’ve written to schools and colleges about the arrangements for exams and assessments this year. ✉️

Share it with parents and students:

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#Exams2024 Department for Education SFCA Association of Colleges (AoC) ASCL JCQ Parentkind Mumsnet The Student Room 👩‍🎓

Download the ‘D-Day 80: Remembering the Normandy Landings’ education pack commissioned by @Britishmemorial which includes photographs, letters and documents for pupils to carry out research and commemorate this historic event. #DDAY80

🗒️Learn more: bit.ly/4902ULK

This term, many pupils will be sitting their exams, preparing for secondary school, or taking part in sports days - it’s really important that they don’t miss out.

Schools like Samuel Ryder Academy are doing brilliant work to improve attendance 👇

Get support: ow.ly/GItO50RfYcA

AI is already having a transformational impact in education, whether helping to mark work, tutor students or plan lessons.

Today, Oliver Dowden and I met with technology companies and education leaders to discuss how we can unleash this potential now and in the future.

The moment everybody's been waiting for! 🥁 National Early Years Teacher Day Awards! 🏆

Congratulations to our winners! 🎉

💜 Emma Morris - EYTS
🧡 Amy Fisher - QTS
💚 Laura Cadmore - Expert
❤️ Johnathan Crockett - Men in Early Years
🩵 Roxana Mehmood - Trainee

#EYTeacherDay

Today, MPs vote on new laws to protect our future generations across the UK from the harmful effects of smoking and to tackle youth vaping.

The UK’s Chief Medical Officers explain why they're supporting our plans for a #SmokefreeGeneration 🔽

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💸 Double your salary expectations with a job in the tech sector.

Sign up to a free Digital Skills Bootcamp and kickstart your career. Courses last up to 16 weeks, and you'll get a guaranteed job interview on completion.

Hear why students Northcoders signed up 👇

Improving attendance is my number one priority, so I'm glad there are 440,000 fewer pupils persistently absent or not attending school than last year.

Read how we're tackling school absence here 👇

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Our apprenticeship system is world-leading.

Not only are they across nearly 70% of occupations, but they are also available for all ages over 16.

I'm delighted that 5.8 million people have now used an apprenticeship to launch their career, get promoted or retrain since 2010.

The next edition of the AI Safety Summit, the AI Seoul Summit, will be taking place 21-22 May 🇬🇧 🇰🇷

More on how this will build on the legacy of November's summit at Bletchley Park 👇🏻
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Thousands of working parents of two-year-olds are now accessing 15 hours a week of government-funded childcare.

Here’s everything you need to know 👇

#UniversalCredit Childcare payments increase on 8 Apr 2024 to £1,014.63 for one child and £1,739.37 for two or more children helping you juggle childcare and work

#UniversalCredit Childcare now offers even more support ow.ly/vrvz50R0URH

If childcare is something you're worried about, tell your Work Coach and they'll tell you what's available.

Steph, a single mum of four, enrolled on a training course and has been supported back into work by #UniversalCreditChildcare

🎯 NEWS: We've now hit our target of 150,000 more children benefitting from government childcare support this week.

But this is only the start, with thousands more families benefitting in the months ahead as we deliver the largest expansion of childcare in our country's history.

This September, eligible working parents of children from 9 months old will have access to 15 hours childcare support.

From September 2025, this will increase to 30 hours for 38 weeks of the year.

Don't miss out! Find out what you could get ⬇️