Business training events: Vocational

The value of publicly funded college courses will be debated at business training events this year.

And this follows a review of vocational courses by Professor Alison Wolf who was asked by the Education Secretary to see how training can be improved.

Professor Wolf believes that between a quarter and a third of 16 to 19 year olds are on vocational programmes with little or no market value.

She recommends that employers should be part-subsidised so that they offer better quality apprenticeships.

The number of vocational qualifications has increased significantly in the last ten years.

However Professor Wolf believes many of these are not of sufficient quality.

The Wolf report also suggests that schools should work to ensure no pupil leaves secondary education without good English and Maths GCSEs.

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