New A-level rules for schools in England after ‘significant concerns’

Schools have received a major update on Rishi Sunak’s plan to ditch A-Levels. Sunak’s plan to scrap A-Levels was scrapped by the new Labor government as it was revealed the former Conservative prime minister had put no money aside to pay for the policy.

New Labor chancellor Rachel said the former prime minister had not put “one penny” into the policy, saying “if we can’t afford it, we can’t do it”. Ms Reeves told the Commons on Monday: “This was supposed to be the former prime minister’s legacy but it seems he hasn’t put a penny aside to pay for it. So we’re not going to continue with this policy because if we can’t afford it, we can’t do it.”

Paul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders’ union NAHT, welcomed her announcement. “The previous government’s proposals lacked ambition and were an expensive repackaging of the current A and T levels, creating clear options for 16-year-olds,” he said.

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“School leaders have also expressed significant concerns about proposals to reshape 16-19 qualifications in light of much more pressing concerns in the education system. Recruitment and retention, supporting students with SEND, the school in ruins – these are just some of the crises facing education that our members believe should be a priority for qualifications reform.”

Commenting on the decision to offer a 5.5% pay rise for 500,000 teachers and 1.3 million teachers and a 22% pay rise for junior doctors, Professor Len Shackleton, IEA Editorial & Research Fellow, said: “It appears that none of these proposed deals. , which together are set to cost taxpayers around £5 billion more than the previous budget, imply any commitment to reform or improve productivity Whatever the government claims, this addition to the fiscal black hole is the result of its own decisions.

“These deals can temporarily buy some of the most obvious industrial disputes. But there are many more in line for higher wages in the public and quasi-public sectors – civil servants, local authority employees, universities and hundreds of quangos. I hope these big gains will dampen the explosion of union militancy as the end of the lockout is optimistic enough to be lifted, electronic voting will be allowed, union recognition will be easier and union representatives will be allowed into real and virtual offices of employers to recruit.

“Unions have long memories and will not be satisfied with a one-size-fits-all deal. They will aim to beat inflation permanently and will come back again and again for higher wages. Campaigners yearn to roll back the years to the pre-Thatcher era, when campaigners ruled and the wind was in their sails.

“No one in this government has experience in trade union militancy. Keir Starmer, a relatively elderly (61) cabinet member, was a teenager during the Winter of Discontent in 1979. Most Labor politicians today think they talk nicely to the unions. solve any problem. I fear they will learn the hard way that this is not necessarily the case.