Mentions:
1: Flick Drummond (CON - Meon Valley) general qualifications because they do not cover the same subjects. - Speech Link
2: Robin Walker (CON - Worcester) will withdraw funding for the international baccalaureate careers programme.I want to expand on the - Speech Link
3: Munira Wilson (LDEM - Twickenham) It is high time we valued them properly, by extending the pupil premium, protecting student choice and - Speech Link
4: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) That is a dangerous road, because I do not want to have two-tier qualifications: some for the disadvantaged - Speech Link
5: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) There are new qualifications that can be developed so that those who do not pass will be able to do some - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (CON - Chichester) I do not think that anybody in this House doubts my support for apprenticeships—they were my golden ticket - Speech Link
2: Jake Berry (CON - Rossendale and Darwen) The estate is not fit for purpose, and I hope that when the next round of funding happens, my right hon - Speech Link
3: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) Will the Government listen to those people and to the Sixth Form Colleges Association and protect student - Speech Link
4: Lia Nici (CON - Great Grimsby) Friend advise me and my constituents of what they should do to push through and get the qualifications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Marsha De Cordova (LAB - Battersea) The petition, entitled “Protect student choice: do not withdraw funding for BTEC qualifications”, aims - Speech Link
2: Marsha De Cordova (LAB - Battersea) Will she guarantee that funding will not be removed for any BTEC qualifications unless an impartial, - Speech Link
3: Mick Whitley (LAB - Birkenhead) , Ministers are instead focusing on repackaging technical qualifications and restricting student choice - Speech Link
4: Vicky Foxcroft (LAB - Lewisham, Deptford) As a result, funding for the majority of BTEC qualifications will be removed. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) These include delaying the removal of funding for technical educational qualifications that overlap with - Speech Link
2: Lord Blunkett (LAB - Life peer) I do not believe that for a minute. - Speech Link
3: None Take my eldest son, who took a BTEC national diploma because he was not sure what he wanted to do. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) If choice and competition are good for GCSE and A-levels, why not for T-levels? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Gwynne (LAB - Denton and Reddish) We really do not need to get drawn into the merits of T-levels against BTECs—that is a false choice. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Gwynne (LAB - Denton and Reddish) In that case, it may well be the right decision to withdraw funding from the BTEC qualification and put - Speech Link
3: Alex Burghart (CON - Brentwood and Ongar) High-level criteria for the removal of funding for technical qualifications that overlap with T-levels - Speech Link
4: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) If anyone out there wishes to ensure that level 3 qualifications—they offer real student choice, are - Speech Link
5: Rachel Hopkins (LAB - Luton South) a longer period of time, in greater breadth, is all about student choice. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kate Green (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) By forcing students to specialise too early, there is a danger of reducing, not enhancing, student choice - Speech Link
2: Gill Furniss (LAB - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) The roll-back of BTECs would reduce student choice, degrade the variety of qualifications that employers - Speech Link
3: Munira Wilson (LDEM - Twickenham) Withdrawing funding sooner would narrow choice and force students into unsuitable qualifications. - Speech Link
4: Tahir Ali (LAB - Birmingham, Hall Green) I urge the Government to abandon their plan to withdraw support and funding for BTECs and to provide - Speech Link
5: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) Education must not withdraw funding for BTEC qualifications, as currently planned, until there is strong - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Adonis (LAB - Life peer) They do not need any additional funding powers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (LAB - Life peer) a provider, or a student or prospective student for that matter, to challenge an IfATE decision to withdraw - Speech Link
3: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) Mine insists that the institution must publish specified criteria before it can withdraw funding, or - Speech Link
4: Lord Blunkett (LAB - Life peer) actually protect the interests of the young people we so often talk about, the vocational qualifications - Speech Link
5: Lord Willetts (CON - Life peer) for the qualifications that they do as seriously as we would treat a decision to remove the funding - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (LAB - Life peer) This leads to insufficient provision and limits student choice of programme—for example, when multiple - Speech Link
2: Lord Blunkett (LAB - Life peer) I just pose this question to the Minister: choice for whom? - Speech Link
3: None away with BTEC national diplomas has not been in a factory or a workplace for a very long time, if at - Speech Link
4: Lord Baker of Dorking (CON - Life peer) BTEC qualification or a BTEC extended diploma. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Willetts (CON - Life peer) We do need a better funding arrangement for levels 4 and 5. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Leeds (Bishops - Bishops) The funding regime does not provide support for students in FE who do not have EHCPs to anything like - Speech Link
3: Lord Shipley (LDEM - Life peer) Funding per student has been lower in FE for too long. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Wyld (CON - Life peer) The Government are to be commended for the funding for level 3 qualifications, but I share concerns about - Speech Link
5: Lord Triesman (LAB - Life peer) choice—an insistence on personal choice which will not be amenable to strict direction.The world of - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Coussins (CB - Life peer) Registration depends on stringent criteria for training, qualifications and experience. - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall (LAB - Life peer) The fact that the proposed reduction per student is not huge in cash terms is irrelevant. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) to put financial penalties on universities and student unions for not wanting to listen to speakers - Speech Link
4: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) They are so for a number of reasons, not least because, as a society, we should not have to make a choice - Speech Link
5: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) Dulwich, who is not in his place, to do more for victims. - Speech Link