Everyone is talking about a piffling amount of funding for Latin, which was the plan, as Gav has just made the extraordinary decision to defund and then scrap level 3 BTECs by 2023.
44 per cent of white working-class students who enter university have studied at least one BTEC and 37 per cent of black students enter with only BTEC qualifications so disadvantaged kids will be particularly affected by this decision.
The rationale is that the government's flagship T-level programme isn't going very well due to schools and colleges preferring well-known and tested qualifications, so the solution is to get rid of them and force kids onto the new courses.
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