According to the Post-16 Skills Plan, sixteen-year-olds will have either academic or practical options.<\/p>\n
The practical courses will be directed at a set of skilled occupations and will contain a collective core of English, Maths and Digital Skills.<\/p>\n
The government says the plans will help to enhance the nation’s flair.<\/p>\n
The plan was introduced after Lord Sainsbury’s Report of the Independent Panel on Technical Education, which suggested simplifying the existing system of practical education is delivered through “15 high-quality routes”, with criteria being set by employers.<\/p>\n
The report found the contemporary \u201cover-complex\u201d system which \u201cfails to provide the skills most needed for the 21st<\/sup> century\u201d and emphasizes that this has severe consequences for the country\u2019s efficiency, economy and competitiveness.<\/p>\n Issuing the plan, Skills Minister Nick Boles said a practical education system was required to harness the nation’s faculty.<\/p>\n “The Skills Plan is the next step towards that goal, building on the progress we have already made by investing in apprenticeships and creating a skilled workforce that is the envy of every other nation.<\/p>\n “This won’t just help our young people get the best jobs but it will also boost our economy, benefitting us all.”<\/p>\n The government said: \u201cThousands of ineffective courses that short-changed employers and young people would be replaced with straightforward routes into technical employment.\u201d<\/p>\n Lord Sainsbury said that at the moment, young people who are considering a practical education had to select a course out of more than 20,000 courses provided by 160 different organisations.<\/p>\n The government says that it is not crystal clear which course will give them the best opportunity of getting a job.<\/p>\n For example, a growing engineer can choose from a potential of 501 courses.<\/p>\n Every individual course will be offered by a solitary course provider, who will be granted an \u00e9lite license in a competitive procedure.<\/p>\n The first routes will be available from 2019 and will take place in either college or at a work placement through apprenticeships.<\/p>\n The Association of School and College Leaders said it was vital that the government supports its plan with additional funding for colleges.<\/p>\n They added: “The amount of funding they currently receive is woefully inadequate and this situation needs to be urgently addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to the Post-16 Skills Plan, sixteen-year-olds will have either academic or practical options. The practical courses will be directed at a set of skilled occupations and will contain a collective core of English, Maths and Digital Skills. The government says the plans will help to enhance the nation’s flair. The plan was introduced after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,38,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-national-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}