Vocational Education

(asked on 12th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that T-levels achieve parity of esteem with A-levels.


Answered by
Anne Milton Portrait
Anne Milton
This question was answered on 21st July 2017

We are confident that these reforms to the skills system will restore the reputation of technical education and make it an attractive and high-quality option for those 16–19 year olds who do not follow an academic programme, providing them with the skills they need to access high-quality, fulfilling careers.

Evidence from other countries shows that technical education is highly sought-after where the system is clearly understood and is led by employers. For this reason, we have accepted the recommendations of Lord Sainsbury’s Independent Panel on Technical Education that the current confusing patchwork of thousands of qualifications of variable quality should be replaced with fifteen high-quality routes to skilled employment, with qualifications within these routes based on standards set by experienced panels of professionals drawn from their respective fields. The Post-16 Skills Plan (Cm 9280), published on 8 July 2016 and deposited in the libraries of both Houses, sets out how we intend to do this, creating a world-class technical education system to deliver the skilled workers that our economy needs.

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