Skills and Employment 2024-11-04
2024-11-04
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The London Design and Engineering university technical college in the MP's constituency provides training at secondary level similar to further education, aiming to enhance employability.
What steps she is taking to help ensure that young people have the necessary skills to gain employment. The London Design and Engineering university technical college caters for 14 to 19-year-olds and offers at secondary level the kind of training often only found at further education level, ensuring it is embedded post-16 into the workplace and improving employability skills.
This Government are about fixing the foundations. We have launched an independent curriculum and assessment review, enabling all young people to access rigorous and high-value qualifications and training. We will introduce a youth guarantee helping 18 to 21-year-olds access education, training and apprenticeship opportunities.
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Specific commitment regarding creating more secondary-level opportunities for skills-based training was not provided
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The London Design and Engineering university technical college in the MP's constituency provides training at secondary level similar to further education, aiming to enhance employability.
Does the Minister agree that we need to create more opportunities at secondary level for skills-based training to ensure that it is embedded and lasts post-16 into the workplace?
This Government absolutely value university technical colleges, helping young people develop technical skills with employer support for technical careers. The independent curriculum and assessment review aims to broaden the curriculum so that young people do not miss out on vocational subjects.
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Specific commitment regarding creating more secondary-level opportunities for skills-based training was not provided
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The green training hub at East Sussex college supports students, young and mature, in moving into the solar energy sector.
Will the Minister join me in celebrating the hub's second birthday? Will she come down to Eastbourne to visit the hub and its principal, Rebecca Conroy?
A visit to Eastbourne to celebrate the hub sounds delightful. However, this falls to my noble Friend, Baroness Smith of Malvern.
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Commitment to support the initiative by visiting the hub was not made
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The Department recently confirmed a decision to cancel support payments to combined cadet forces in state schools.
What assessment was made beforehand of the impact that this cut would have? Will the Secretary of State reconsider it?
We respect all young people in cadets or other armed forces areas. The hon. Gentleman raises this point, but after 14 years of previous Government's failure and a £22 billion black hole, there are difficult choices to be made.
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Assessment and reconsideration were not addressed; criticism was directed at the previous government
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