What will T-levels look like?

‘We have let down those young people who want to move onto learning technical, practical skills and get a skilled job,’ according to Damian Hinds, secretary of state for education. In the government’s response to a consultation on new T-levels, he comments that ‘academic routes are not the only path to success, but for too long our technical education system has not provided a good enough alternative’.

T-levels – technical education programmes for 16–18 year-olds – are billed as the answer. Running alongside A-levels and apprenticeships, some will begin in 2020, with science T-levels scheduled for 2021.