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The removal of BTEC qualifications will 'massively impact disadvantaged students' Government is warned

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Teachers have condemned Government plans to scrap funding for applied general qualifications (AGQs), including BTECs in childcare, in favour of a new vocational qualification, T-Levels.
The Government is planning on scrapping BTECs and replacing them with T-Level qualifications
The Government is planning on scrapping BTECs and replacing them with T-Level qualifications

Concerns were raised about the removal of funding last week as students' BTEC results were released.

Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said, ‘Scrapping these qualifications would massively impact disadvantaged students who for many years have used these qualifications to progress to higher education and into employment.

‘Pinning a qualification system on a binary choice of only A-Levels or the untried and untested T-Levels, without that third route of AGQs, is ill thought out and will result in thousands of students missing out on opportunities to progress, and potentially the closure of FE colleges.’

In July, the Department for Education said it planned to 'shake up' the post-16 education system to remove low-quality qualifications that lack job prospects'. The new system will be phased in between 2023 and 2025.

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