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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nina Lloyd

Pause post-16 education shake-up or risk worsening skills shortages, warn MPs

The Government must pause its shake-up of post-16 qualifications or risk worsening the UK’s skills shortages, MPs have warned, as campaigners branded its proposed reforms “misguided” and “reckless”.

Plans to withdraw funding from tried and tested applied general qualifications (AGQs) before there is time to assess the rollout of new T-levels could end up narrowing student choice, the Education Committee said.

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