Plans to raise the status of vocational courses in sixth forms and colleges in England have been announced.
A “technical baccalaureate” is to be introduced showing young people’s abilities in maths, literacy and a high level vocational qualification.
This will be a performance measure for schools and evidence of credible skills for students to show employers.
Skills minister Matthew Hancock said the technical baccalaureate would be a “mark of achievement”.
But Labour’s education spokesman Stephen Twigg said: “This is a small step in the right direction, but it doesn’t match the scale of the challenge our education system faces.”
The “Tech Bacc”, launched on Monday by Mr Hancock and Education Secretary Michael Gove, is intended to reinforce the value of technical and vocational training and qualifications taken by 16 to 19-year-olds.
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via BBC News – ‘Tech Bacc’ aims to boost status of vocational courses.
The TechBacc forms part of the government’s strategy on vocational education that was shaped by the Wolf review in 2011. The report from Professor Alison Wolf found that some vocational courses on offer were of “little value” and did not deliver the skills that employers were looking for.
via New TechBacc will ‘raise status of vocational education’ – People Management Magazine Online.
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All this was written a year ago and the Report was endorsed by the Goverment.
“In England, today, around two and a half million young people are aged 14 to 19. The vast majority are engaged full or part-time in education, and they are growing up in a world where long periods of study and formal credentials are the norm. It is a world in which record numbers of people enter university, and in which the aspiration to higher education is almost universal among the parents of young children. And it is one in which governments must and should acknowledge families’ and students’ aspirations, and take seriously their own political commitments to equal opportunity. No young person should be in an education or training programme which denies them the chance to progress, immediately or later in life, or fails to equip them with the skills needed for such mobility.”
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