Early Day Motion·EDM 2117

UNIVERSITY TECHNICAL COLLEGES (No. 2)

20 July 20115 Signatures

Motion Text

That this House endorses the Government's commitment to help establish new university technology colleges across the country; notes the role that university technology colleges can play in providing a vocational pathway for children that is underpinned by core academic knowledge; believes that every child should have the option of beginning study for a craft or trade from the age of 14 years; further believes that the new generation of university technical colleges will help achieve this; and supports the bid to establish a university technical college in the West of England via the City of Bristol College and the University of the West of England.