A report from the influential Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) praises our system of three-year bachelor degrees, but says that too few people are pursuing shorter one and two-year vocational programmes after they have finished secondary school.
While in many other countries covered by the OECD up to one third of a cohort will have post-secondary vocational qualifications as their highest qualification, this figure in England is less than 10 per cent.
The report, Skills Beyond School – England, says that these qualifications “give people the skills many employers are now seeking”.
It also says that England needs more programmes designed to “deepen the professional skills of graduates of vocational programmes and apprentices”.
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