{"id":90424,"date":"2018-03-27T10:53:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T10:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c5e05cc764d0cb8ef8f0be0bdbd02d9b"},"modified":"2018-03-27T10:53:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T10:53:25","slug":"news-story-skills-minister-calls-on-employers-to-join-new-t-level-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=90424","title":{"rendered":"News story: Skills Minister calls on employers to join new T level panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Leading businesses are being urged to grasp the opportunity of working with the government to develop prestigious new T level qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>Skills Minister Anne Milton has called on industry experts from agriculture, environmental and animal care; business and administration; hair and beauty; creative and design; and catering and hospitality to join the influential T level employer panels and help develop the outline content for new qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>T levels are new courses, which will be on a par with A levels and provide young people with a genuine choice between technical and academic education post 16. The first subjects in digital, education and childcare, and construction will be taught from 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Skills Minister, Anne Milton said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>T levels are about giving greater choice to young people to get the skills they need to achieve good jobs. It is also about businesses &#8211; we know they are crying out for a skilled workforce and T levels will create the next generation of talented employees for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We are already working with top industry leaders and want even more to join us to make this a success for individuals, businesses and the economy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>T level content is already being developed with the help of top firms like Rolls-Royce, IBM, Lloyds and Morphy Richards, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The Department for Education wants business representatives to step-up and help design the new qualifications in T level routes which will be delivered from 2022:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>agriculture, environmental and animal care<\/li>\n<li>business and administration<\/li>\n<li>hair and beauty<\/li>\n<li>creative and design<\/li>\n<li>catering and hospitality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Businesses can <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/publicappointments.cabinetoffice.gov.uk\/appointment\/11817-2\/\">apply<\/a> to be part of the T level qualification panels. The closing date for applications is 5pm Tuesday 8 May 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses given the opportunity to play a central role in designing new technical qualifications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}