Maths and English test pass requirements for apprentices set to be scrapped in bid to boost home-grown talent

MATHS and English trial walk requirements for apprentices volition beryllium scrapped nether plans to boost home-grown endowment and slash immigration.

The determination volition springiness bosses the flexibility to motion disconnected a trainee’s qualification if it is wide they tin bash the occupation but conflict academically.

Ministers are understood to beryllium considering the change, with hopes it volition assistance wean the system disconnected overseas labour.

A canvass of bosses, who, similar TV’s Lord Alan Sugar, instrumentality connected apprentices, recovered 71 per cent backed the idea.

Institute of Directors spokesperson Alex Hall-Chen said: “Flexibility would promote much employers to connection apprenticeships.”

Mike Worley, of apprenticeships supplier HIT Training, added: “Does passing an exam marque idiosyncratic a ­better cook oregon attraction worker?

"In my experience, it does not.”

At present, trainees who bash not marque the grades astatine GCSE indispensable walk level 1 numeracy and literacy tests.

The Department for Education said: “We recognise employers privation much flexibility and are looking into what improvements tin beryllium made.”

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