Vocational education in English schools: Protecting options for pre-16 pupils debt

This report assesses the effects of league table-based school accountability on the provision of high-quality vocational education in England for the 14–16 age-group, which threaten to narrow down the options available to this age-group.A recent change to the way school performance is measured means that most vocational qualifications will no longer count towards a school’s league table score. The effect of this is likely to be a rapid decline in the provision of vocational education for the 14–16 age-group, which serves to demonstrate the sensitivity of vocational education provision to small changes in the accountability framework for schools. 

By IPPR, UK.

Governance Policy Resource.