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Six Steps to Change

This manifesto proposes a series of policy steps which Edge believes will significantly raise the status of practical and vocational learning in the UK, so that:

• all young people have the opportunity to achieve their potential, and
• the UK's future workforce is equipped with the skills to be successful in the modern economy.

Edge proposes 6 steps to achieve the changes required:

1. A broad curriculum up to age 14 with opportunities to develop life skills and experience a range of future options.

2. SATs replaced by an individual profile of attainment, skills and aptitudes which would be used by students, parents and teachers to choose a post 14 pathway.

3. At 14 all students, in addition to continuing a broad curriculum, including English, maths and science, would be supported in choosing a pathway matched to their interest and abilities, each with a different balance of theoretical and practical learning.

4. Students on practical and vocational courses would be taught in specialist facilities or specialist institutions and by appropriately experienced staff.

5. At 16 students would choose to specialise within their pathway, change to another pathway or enter employment with training.

6. Beyond 18, students would have the opportunity to study at degree level in a centre of vocational excellence endorsed by employers.