The Guardian view on vocational GCSEs: why now? | Editorial

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The Guardian view on vocational GCSEs: why now? | Editorial

Ministers’ commitment to cutting youth unemployment is admirable, but how new qualifications will help is unclear The first question that should be asked about plans to launch a batch of vocational GCSEs is: how will these differ from the roughly 50 similar courses that already exist? Is this primarily a rebadging exercise, aimed at boosting the qualifications’ status and name recognition, while signalling how seriou…