Heads, teaching experts and unions have slammed Rishi Sunak’s plans to scrap A-levels and make Maths and English compulsory to 18 as a misdirected “fantasy” that won’t work because so many schools can’t recruit teachers in these subjects.
Sunak, who argued in his speech to the Conservative party conference last week that reforming education was “one of the biggest levers we have to change the direction of our country”, plans to replace both A-levels and the government’s new T-levels with a merged baccalaureate-style qualification called the Advanced British Standard.
