Just over a year ago, the government released its Post-16 Skills Plan. In the introduction to the plan, the then skills minister, Nick Boles wrote: “Reforming the skills system is one of the most important challenges we face as a country. Getting it right is crucial to our future prosperity, and to the life chances of millions of people”.
This statement now rings truer than ever as we look towards a future outside of the European Union and the potential skills shortages that it may bring with it.
However, the plan also sets out their ambition “that every young person, after an excellent grounding in the core academic subjects and a broad and balanced curriculum to age 16, is presented with two choices: the academic or the technical option”. My counter to this would be: Why the focus on academia pre-16?
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