NASUWT: Changes to vocational qualifications are "reckless"
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
11:57 AM
Commenting on the Coalition Government’s cutting of vocational qualifications that count towards school GCSE performance tables, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union, said:
“All young people should be entitled to be able to access high quality vocational provision but this is not what today’s announcement is about.
“The Government’s intention is to privilege the academic over the vocational courses and to remove any notion of parity of esteem, in pursuit of its elitist approach to educational provision.
“Thousands of young people who have worked hard for their qualifications are now having their worth publically questioned.
“When faced with spiraling youth unemployment, this announcement from is the last thing they need to hear.
“Changes of this scale, in the absence of any detailed review of the courses, are reckless. They will disenfranchise thousands of young people, remove qualifications employers value, narrow the school curriculum even more and lead to disaffection among pupils.”
ENDS
Stuart Gannon
NASUWT Press Office
Tel: 020 7420 9681
Mobile (and out of hours contact): 07966 198894
Address: 5 King Street , Covent Garden, London, WC2E 8SD
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