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Vocational Education: Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the press release entitled PM: From today Britain will value the hard hat as much as the graduation cap, published on 28 July 2026, what recent assessment has been made of the availability of

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
28 Aug 2026
Target answer date
2 Sept 2026
Answer
8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Aug 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the press release entitled PM: From today Britain will value the hard hat as much as the graduation cap, published on 28 July 2026, what recent assessment has been made of the availability of

  2. 2 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 8 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    We are at the early stages of development of the new technical awards and will be engaging with school leaders and the wider sector to understand how we can ensure we have the right capacity to deliver these pathways and continue to target workforce growt...

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8 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the reasons why approximately 30% of 16-year-olds did not achieve a grade 4 or above in a) GCSE English and b) GCSE Mathematics in 2026.

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English Language and Mathematics: GCSE

8 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the current requirements for students who do not achieve a grade 4 in GCSE a) English or b) Maths to continue studying those subjects post-16.

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English Language and Mathematics: GCSE

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