GCSE shake-up

What about Functional Skills, do they have a place?

YES THEY DO

Whilst all the talk is about the GCSE shake-up, Michael Gove yesterday in Parliament also added that "something else" would be available for those students at school, who were unlikely to succeed in the new exams.

Add this to the requirement for Functional Skills in Apprentices which starts this month and we can conclude that Functional Skills plus the new Bacc type qualifications will be the way forward.