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<p>Following a recommendation in Professor Alison Wolf’s review of technical education
in 2011, the department has made improvements to school performance tables to ensure
that they only recognise qualifications that meet stretching quality requirements.
As a result, the number of non-GCSE qualifications included in performance tables
for 14 to 16 year olds fell from 3,175 in the 2014 tables to 75 in the 2020 tables.</p><p>The
department assesses qualifications submitted by awarding organisations against published
criteria, including requirements for mandatory external assessment and support from
employers or from higher education providers. As part of this process, the department
seeks advice from independent and expert education advisors when deciding on whether
to approve qualifications for inclusion in the technical and applied qualifications
performance table lists.</p><p>The department publishes the list of those qualifications
included in performance tables on an annual basis. The performance table list for
2020, attached, can also be accessed at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-stage-4-qualifications-discount-codes-and-point-scores"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-stage-4-qualifications-discount-codes-and-point-scores</a>.</p><p>The
department’s section 96 list, which is attached, shows all of the qualifications that
are approved for teaching to particular age groups and eligible for funding. This
list, which can be found on the department’s website at the following link: <a href="https://section96.education.gov.uk/"
target="_blank">https://section96.education.gov.uk/</a>, is a wider list than the
list of qualifications included in performance tables as it shows there are 5,338
qualifications approved for funding for 14 to 16 year olds.</p><p> </p>
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