NASUWT comments on the statement on the Wolf review

12 May 2011

Reacting to the Coalition Government’s response to the Wolf report, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union, said:

“It comes as no surprise that the Coalition Government has accepted, in its entirety, this package.

“The worrying development is that the Labour opposition has been seduced by these arguments.

“It is scandalous that the Secretary of State continues to peddle the myth of easy, valueless qualifications being taken in schools to justify these changes. This insults and denigrates the achievements of young people and teachers.

“This Government inherited a coherent approach to vocational education which ensured that all learners would receive a broad and balanced offer.

“Rather than letting this bed in, Ministers then invented a problem and came up with a Review designed to reach the conclusions the Coalition Government wanted as the NASUWT warned it would in its submission to the Review.

“Whether the Coalition likes it or not this country ranks internationally as high performing against all international indicators.

“Indeed this country’s vocational qualifications framework has been used by many other European countries as a model for their own.

“The Coalition can take no credit for this.

“The system wasn’t broken when the Coalition came into office but they are well on the way to ensuring it will be by the time they have finished.”

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