Nursery World - Only a quarter of parents would encourage their child to pursue technical education

Findings from a survey show that despite Government reforms to technical education with the introduction of T-levels from 2020, parents are more likely to advise their children to go down the academic route.

Awarding body CACHE commissioned a survey of 1,000 11 to- 16-year-olds and 1,000 parents with children to determine their knowledge of views of the Government's planned reforms for post-16 education, specifically around the introduction of T-Levels.

They found that 53 per cent of young people and 56 per cent of parents were unaware of the reforms.

Of those young people who were aware of the Government’s plans for T-levels, only 21 per cent understood what they were.

Expected to roll out from 2020, T-Levels are a classroom-based programme of study which take two years to complete and are an alternative to apprenticeships. Childcare and education T-Levels are among the first to launch. A consultation on the T-Levels programme closed last month.

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