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Baroness Sharp of Guildford

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House of Lords Reform (No. 2) Bill
Monday 3rd March 2014

(10 years, 2 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I am grateful for that question. We are looking closely at the attainment targets for FE colleges and we will be focusing, with Ofsted, much more closely on this.

Baroness Sharp of Guildford Portrait Baroness Sharp of Guildford (LD)
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My Lords, does my noble friend agree that high-quality careers education and properly trained careers advisers are necessary so that young people in schools know the full range of opportunities available to them from vocational education?

Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I agree that they are extremely helpful, but my noble friend will have heard me say before that the technology has moved on from the careers adviser being the gold standard. The gold standard must be the active involvement of all schools with business so that all their pupils have a clear, direct line of sight to the workplace.

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