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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Eleanor Busby

Many students will have no suitable course of study under ‘reckless’ BTec plans

PA Wire

Tens of thousands of sixth-form students could be left without a suitable study programme under the Government’s “reckless” plans to reform post-16 vocational qualifications, a report suggests.

Young people will “pay the price” if proposals to withdraw funding for a number of applied general qualifications (AGQs), such as BTecs, go ahead, a coalition of education and employer groups has said.

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