10 March 2010
The Joint Advisory Committee for Qualifications Approval (JACQA) has published its biennial review of all qualifications offered to young people. The review has made seven high-level recommendations, including a need to simplify the qualifications offer by withdrawing funding from qualifications consistently shown to have recorded low enrolments.
The review looks at the qualifications currently available to 14-19-year-olds. Iain Wright, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), said: "JACQA's review has confirmed we are making good progress in strengthening the four national learning routes. This is really important because each of the routes has been designed to give young people the breadth of learning and functional skills they need to progress and succeed in skilled employment and higher education."
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