POSITIVE EXPERIENCES OF COMBINING CORE QUALIFICATIONS & MORE PRACTICAL SUBJECTS

My mate did a bricky course and left in year 10 – he went to a college and got a college course they let him do his GCSEs and helped him with the maths and English and science in the course … he got straight in …. he did his maths, his English … then he did his course …

[facilitator: is that a good approach?] .. of course it is .. if I want to go on a course … if I don’t have it I can go into the college … I can learn it, what I need to know ..

I can do it alongside it … if I start to progress I am actually doing something [child/young person]

[T]hey just had work experience … [she] wanted to do hair and beauty