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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Richard Adams Education editor

Sunak’s plan to ditch A-levels is out of touch with reality, says union

Students sit an exam
Replacing A-levels with the Advanced British Standard could bring a decade of upheaval to sixth-form education. Photograph: David Davies/PA

Rishi Sunak wants to scrap A-levels and replace them with a single qualification that includes compulsory English and maths, bringing upheaval to sixth-form education in England that would last a decade.

The new baccalaureate-style Advanced British Standard, which Sunak announced in his speech to the Conservative party conference in Manchester, would also kill off the T-level vocational qualification the government launched just three years ago.

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