There seems no reason to bar use of functional skills
Functional skill qualifications may settle into being useful qualifications for some post-16 learners
Apprenticeships differ from other post-16 provision in having an overall ‘framework’
which includes compulsory key skills. They, too, were intended to move to functional
skills this year, but this move has been delayed because of vociferous protests from
training providers. This is because providers are paid partly on results (and completion
requires key skills), and because many have not been teaching, or needed to teach,
English and maths; nor are they equipped to. There is indeed no reason why an
occupational training specialist, whether in hairdressing, construction, or hotel work,
should be expected to teach these subjects. But there is every reason to demand that they
be taught, off the job, to young apprentices who are very likely to change occupations,
and for whom progression routes matter. That is the rule elsewhere, and should be the
rule in England too.
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