What interests me is this bit
"And remember that functional skills, while they may not be perfect, were developed because GCSEs in maths and English were not considered to be any guarantee of the sort of functional literacy and numeracy employers wanted."
Exactly what I said last week Mike!
Great minds etc etc.
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Jonathan,
How do you think this will play out long term? I also have a vested interest in this.
The plain fact is that GCSE are not suitable for a significant minority of the student population.
I think that Functional Skills will adapt (the Government won't resist making some changes - perhaps to ensure their rigour) but not only will they survive, they will become the qualification of choice for that significant minority.
After Wolf and QCDA, I'm much more confident about the future that at any time since they were dropped as a hurdle in GCSE.
Check out what QCDA have said about FS. It's in this weeks newsletter.
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