Several colleges have dropped their T Level courses this year after falling GCSE English and maths pass rates for school leavers hit their recruitment targets. a host of colleges have warned that lower English and maths GCSE pass rates from this year’s school-leavers have made it harder to hit T Level recruitment goals. At an event run by Westminster Forum Projects last month, James Scott, chief executive at Trafford College Group said: “There’s a clear trend coming out, which is the impact of GCSE results on the number of students being recruited onto T Levels. You’ve got many colleges reporting greater numbers of students on level 1 and 2 programmes, less on level 3 including T Levels and A-levels, and much larger increases in young people having to re-sit GCSE maths and English.” Click here for more.
