Question follow-through · 15641

Vocational Education: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she has received on the potential merits of transferring standards approval powers for technical and vocational qualifications from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
22 Nov 2024
Target answer date
26 Nov 2024
Answer
2 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 22 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she has received on the potential merits of transferring standards approval powers for technical and vocational qualifications from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education

  2. 26 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    A consistent theme of the feedback the department receives from employers is the need for a system for developing training to become more responsive to their current and future skills needs. The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Trans...

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