General Article Former education ministers attack plan to reduce vocational qualifications

Topic Selected: Education Book Volume: 423

Coalition fears DfE may break pledges that only small percentage of qualifications will be replaced by T-levels.

By Richard Adams, Education Editor

A coalition of former education ministers has attacked the government’s ‘disastrous’ plan to scrap dozens of popular vocational qualifications in England and push students into taking its favoured new T-levels.

David Blunkett, the former Labour education secretary, said he feared that widespread scrapping of qualifications such as BTecs from 2025 ...

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