Education and Skills Bill
12:00 pm
John Hayes (Shadow Minister, Innovation, Universities and Skills; South Holland and The Deepings, Conservative)
May I ask you a final question on the subject of completion rates, hoping that in relation to your earlier answer we might be able to get that information during our scrutiny of the Bill? You link the change in completion rates to the decision to drop technical certificates as a mandatory requirement. You said in your submission to the House of Lords inquiry:
“What is not clear is how many apprentices have achieved a technical certificate. Current completion rates will include sectors where there is no longer a TC requirement at all.”
So is the completion rate figure something of an illusion in terms of assessing the teaching and testing of real competences?