Children have long hit an educational brick wall when they fail to get the grades at GCSE. Are policymakers finally beginning to realise this?
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There is a new hero protector for the less academic child. Step forward none other than Sir Michael Wilshaw, Ofsted’s chief inspector. He has recently been speaking up for the child who needs vocational training but has precious few choices of a quality experience post GCSE. While being careful to praise the current education system relative to the past, he bemoans the educational brick wall all children hit if they fail to get the grades at GCSE.
There is, he argued in a speech to the CentreForum, a moral imperative as well as an economic one to improve the vocational provision open to them. ‘People have criticised our vocational and technical education for the last 50 years,’ he said. ‘But it’s as bad as it ever was.’