A BTec, which stands for the Business and Technology Education Council, is a practical qualification. Courses are assessed through exams, regular coursework and projects, and sometimes placements.

For thousands of BTec students, this year's results day came and went without an outcome - after a delay in issuing grades. For about 2,000 of them, the delay is dragging on, according to exam board ...

Nearly half a million UK pupils face a fresh round of results chaos after exam board Pearson pulled its BTec results on the eve of releasing them. Pearson said it would be re-grading all its BTecs to ...

MINISTERS are facing growing calls to cancel vocational exams. Further education leaders have voiced concerns over students’ safety and say it was not fair that A-levels and GCSEs have been postponed.

Welding students in Botetourt County have been experiencing cutting-edge technology. On Dec. 9, BTEC welding students had an exciting and educational experience that not many high school welding ...

Universities are now admitting twice as many BTEC students as they did a decade ago, amid fears of falling standards. Higher education institutions have become “increasingly open” to accepting school ...

Staff across the school are incredibly proud of the hard work and positive attitude shown by their students over the last few years and are delighted that the results reflect this. Students can now ...

About 170,000 students have received their results for BTec Tech Awards, BTec Firsts and BTec Level 2 Technical courses. But what are BTecs, and how are they marked? Here is everything you need to ...