Extract from Lords consideration of Commons Reasons and Amendments to the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill m- Mar 24

Lord Baker of Dorking (Con):...Perhaps the Minister can explain one of the problems. BTECs will be disqualified if they overlap, but what does overlap mean? There is no definition of “overlap”. It is very subjective. It is what you think may or may not overlap. To give an example, I have had a letter from an industrialist, whom I have never met, Benjamin Silverstone, a fellow at Warwick University and an expert in battery technology. He says:

“My concern is that a kid says, ‘I want to do my engineering T-level because in two years that job is going to be there’, but that T-level doesn’t fit them for it because there isn’t anything in there about battery technologies, electrification or power electronics.”

This is just one businessman, whom I have never met, but he is saying that T-levels look far too academic...

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