Technical Qualifications: Strengthening their Value

Part of Education – in the House of Commons am ar 31 Ionawr 2022.

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Photo of Karen Buck Karen Buck Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)

More than a quarter of a million students are studying BTECs, but the Government are rushing ahead with a set of changes about which parents and schools and colleges are very concerned, especially as BTECs are taken up disproportionately by the most disadvantaged families in the most disadvantaged communities. One of the issues that have been raised with me is the limited number of opportunities and qualifications that will be available under T-levels, in comparison with BTECs. Can the Minister explain how a levelling-up agenda is being advanced by a reduction in the range of opportunities available to such students?