Leadership

How Aware Are Schools of T Levels? A Survey of Senior Leaders and Classroom Teachers

This NFER report focuses on awareness of T Levels in schools as providers’ prepare for the delivery of the first T Levels in Digital, Construction, and Education and Childcare from September 2020.

The survey of 732 secondary school senior leaders and classroom teachers found low awareness of T Levels amongst classroom teachers, with four out of ten (41 per cent) reporting that they had heard of T Levels.

Encouragingly, a higher proportion of respondents located within five miles of a T Level provider had heard of T Levels than those based over 15 miles away (61 per cent as opposed to 46 per cent). However, around two-fifths of respondents (39 per cent) located within five miles of T Level provision had not heard of T Levels.

The message was starker when the 52 per cent of respondents who had heard of T Levels were asked how well informed they were. The vast majority (83 per cent) reported that they were ‘not very well informed’ or ‘not informed at all’

Over a quarter of senior leaders and classroom teachers (27 per cent) reported that teachers were ‘not at all aware’ of T Levels, with an additional six out of ten reporting that teachers were ‘not very aware’.

Senior leaders and classroom teachers reported that they wanted a deeper understanding of T Levels.

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