Are Vocational Courses the Road to Nowhere?
Report says up to 350,000 people get little benefit from vocational courses
Hundreds of thousands of young people in England are doing vocational courses that lead nowhere. A report published recently says that young people are doing vocational courses that don’t lead to jobs or university.
BBC Online reports: “The report says this, coupled with the funding arrangements, provide "perverse incentives" for students to be steered in to notching up strings of qualifications which may not help them in to work or higher education.”
Professor Alison Wolf estimates that around 350,000 people between 16 and 19 “get little to no benefit from the post-16 education system."
The report is only about the English education system.
Have you been on a vocational course? Has it helped you get into higher education or helped you find a job? What do you think should the subjects vocational courses should focus on? Let us know.
