Rejected petition Reform the Welshbacc qualification for secondary school pupils
We need to reform the Welshbacc qualification for pupils to focus on enhancing employability, financial management, political education and life skills.
Currently the WBQ is setting pupils up for higher education and corporate careers, which benefits young people that want that. However, the young people that decide that path isn’t for them, still need skills that will paramount to their life. These skills that aren’t taught in lessons are necessary for a functioning society.
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We propose an edit to the qualification that focuses on topics including but not limited to:
Paying tax, knowing how to pay the different types of tax
Budgeting saving and investing
Credit scores and borrowing money
The dangers of debt and gambling
Writing CVs, behaviour in interviews and careers advice
How the political system, their local MS and MPs and how the voting system works
How to read and understand manifestos in elections and referendums
Social media literacy and fact checking what is posted online
Personal safety, sex ed and first aid
How to manage Alcohol and Smoking/Vaping, in a safe manner of understanding instead of promoting only abstinence.
We are suggesting this as people who have just left secondary school and are realising that we lack skills needed to function as adults and are actively witnessing how the lack of these skills is affecting people around us. by educating young people now we save them from having to learn from them in the future.
Why was this petition rejected?
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