Nursery World - Improving T Levels to meet industry needs

Janet King, sector manager for Education and Childcare at NCFE, unpacks the Education Select Committee’s recommendations on post-16 qualifications and looks at the path ahead.

The Education Select Committee’s recent report into the future of post-16 qualifications shone a welcome light on further education.

For many, top of the list of discussion points was the T Level qualification which began life in 2020 and saw its first completing cohort receive their results last year – with 92 per cent achieving a pass rate and above.

This was of keen interest to the sector as many of that first group of students completed the T Level in Education and Early Years, before then moving into employment or continuing in education.

It was certainly pleasing to read that the Education Select Committee welcomes the “aspiration for T Levels to be a rigorous and ambitious new qualification which will level up our technical education system” and this is something I very much agree with - but we know that more can be done.

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