Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 82696

BTEC Qualifications and Vocational Education: Students

Tabled: 16 October 2025
Answered: 31 October 2025

Question

Vicky Foxcroft

LabourLewisham North

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the number of students studying (a) BTECs and (b) other level 3 qualifications.

Answer

Josh MacAlister
On 20 October 2025, the department set out plans to introduce V Levels, a third vocational pathway at level 3. V Levels will sit alongside A levels and T Levels and will offer a vocational alternative to these academic and technical routes. They will blen...

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