Vocational T-levels offer England’s students poor value, Ofsted says
Education / Thu 20th Jul 2023 at 06:14am
THE government’s “gold standard” vocational qualifications, T-levels, have been strongly criticised by Ofsted for offering poor value, inappropriate work placements and having high dropout rates reports The Guardian.
The report, the first independent evaluation of T-levels commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE), is highly critical of the complex teaching and industry placements required during the two-year courses, which are intended as a vocational equivalent to A-levels in England.
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David Forman
2023-07-21 02:55:17
When the Thatcher Conservative governments scrapped the industrial training boards, such as for the engineering and chemical industries, vocational training went downhill. When I left school in the late 1970's I was offered a two-year college based training scheme by the Chemical Industries Training Board and paid a weekly allowance. The vocational training on offer today is dreadful. Even the Open University's ethos has been subverted by the Conservatives.
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