T-Levels vrs Apprenticeship?

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Dd has been in college for nearly a year and is failing every A level. Mixture of wrong A level choices and mental health. Finally got a CAHMS appointment for next month. And to try to get a start on a ADHD assessment.
I've asked her to make an appointment with college to ask if in September it would be possible for her to effectively start again. Possibly doing Tlevels or look at doing an apprenticeship. Her mental health is more important than college atm.
Does anyone have any experience of this?

If MH is an issue I would think that college might be more forgiving of days off than an apprenticeship.
Plus with college you get full school holidays whereas she wouldn't with an apprenticeship.

Unless of course it is the college environment that is harming her MH.

(people on the Further Education board may have more info, especially with T levels being relatively new, albeit rehashed BTECs)

I taught in Apprenticeships for some years. Your DD will probably be better supported on an Apprenticeship than doing T levels, which are new qualifications that may not be properly embedded and may be taught by people not experienced in teaching the qualification. Most Apprenticeship programmes are delivered by people who know what they’re doing and are experienced in supporting the apprentices.
Good luck to you and your DD! I hope her mental health improves. I saw a number of people thrive on an Apprenticeship after a difficult experience doing A levels.

My son has dyspraxia and with a complete absence of meaningful SENCO intervention failed his first year. If your daughter will be under the age of 19 when the two year course finishes she can re-start year 12 again in the new academic year.

It would be a good idea to look at choosing a bit more wisely, after having collected a lot more information on likes/dislikes and suitability this year.

My son changed from engineering subjects to music production and sound engineering, he's now at university.

Good luck, hopefully the college will be helpful

Thanks all. I'm hoping she can start again. She chose subjects she hadn't done before which has thrown her she should have done the subjects she did well in from her gcses I think. Do you think she could start again so to speak?

She started when she was 16 1/2 so would be 19 1/2 when she finishes so that might be a problem then? We could pay for the exams?

She can definitely start again in September (in whatever she chooses). Everyone is actually entitled to 3 years of 6th Form/College from the age of 16-19. She will be funded up until the end of the academic year in which she turns 19.