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Vocational Education

Question for Department for Education

UIN 901110, tabled on 14 July 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve the provision of technical education.

Answered on

20 July 2015

We will put in place clear professional and technical routes to employment, building on the work of the last parliament to ensure only high quality qualifications are approved for performance tables.

For post-16 students we have introduced Tech Levels and Technical Certificates, all of which are backed by employers, trade or professional bodies and cover most practical careers. Employers will be involved in the delivery or assessment of all technical qualifications from September 2017.

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