Adult apprentices no longer required to do maths and English qualifications Apprentices over the age of 19 will no longer be required to undertake English and maths functional skills qualifications in order to complete their course.
Ms Phillipson said: “Degree level apprenticeships have got an important role to play, but where it comes to level 7 provision in particular we have been clear that we want to reprioritise investment into areas such as level three and four apprenticeship starts.
Under current rules, apprentices must achieve English and maths qualifications of at least level 1 if they are on a level 2 apprenticeship.
Employers will be given the flexibility to decide whether adult apprentices will need to complete a level 2 English and maths qualification – equivalent to GCSE – in order to pass their course, the Government has announced.
For those who have already secured level 1 qualifications, the apprentices must be assessed at level 2 English and maths, and the requirement must be fulfilled before they take the end-point assessment.
