Schools are axing hundreds of vocational courses – even though teachers recognise their value to pupils.
Just a year after the government’s decision to strip hundreds of vocational qualifications from school league tables, a new study has revealed that 60 per cent of schools have either cut practical training courses from their timetables already or plan to do so.
This is despite the fact that 85 per cent of school leaders agree that vocational qualifications are valuable for their students.
The research, supported by the Edge Foundation and carried out by think-tank IPPR, also shows that two-thirds of senior teachers whose schools are cutting vocational courses admit that it is due to the changes to the performance tables.
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