So Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education, slashes the BTEC – Wunmi writes
Most BTEC qualifications are the equivalent of four GCSEs, meaning when students do these courses and get their results, they don’t actually gain a GSCE. From 2014, just seventy ”equivalents” will acknowledged in school league tables as GCSEs. This move will most likely cause schools to remove vocational qualifications. This would have a negative impact as many students do vocational qualifications simply because they prefer the practical side of the courses. But, according to Gove, these qualifications are not enough for university or a sustainable job.
Gove feels that students should study core academic subjects like: English, Maths and History until they are 16. So, if you are choosing your GCSEs, you should think very carefully about whether a certain subject is considered “academic”. This means schools will have to start thinking about teaching a higher standard of Maths, Science, English, Languages, History, Geography and other traditional subjects.
This whole change of education is going to have a big impact on a lot of students. Some students pick certain vocational subjects simply because they want to gain more hands-on experience in a certain job field.
Teachers who teach vocational subjects like engineering say that over half the students find it hard to read and write, in this sense the changes that Grove has proposed will help the students stick to traditional subjects rather than jumping to ‘easier’ ones.
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