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What is the future of early years work placements under T-Levels? Bill Esmond, associate professor of learning and employment at the University of Derby and who is part of a team evaluating the T-Level placement pilots, reports

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Regular readers of Nursery World will already know that childcare and early years education are going to be in the front rank of the Government’s new T-Levels – vocational equivalents to A-Levels – starting alongside construction and computing in 2020. Those subjects, and for that matter ‘technical education’, do not sound much like what nurseries do, so managers and early years practitioners may be wondering how they got into this, and what to expect when it starts.

The single most important reason that the education sector is going to lead the way with T-Levels is its placements. Work placements are central to the Sainsbury Review and accompanying Post-16 Skills Plan, published together in mid-2016. When ministers stand up to talk about T-Levels, the chance for young people to gain work experience through ‘high-quality, substantial industry placements’ is nearly always at the heart of their sales pitch.

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