10. Welsh Conservatives Debate: GCSE and A-level Results

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:29 pm on 2 October 2019.

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Photo of Kirsty Williams Kirsty Williams Liberal Democrat 6:29, 2 October 2019

The Member may be aware that there is a significant demographic change, so actually there are simply fewer of those pupils of that age in the system. And we've just heard from Suzy Davies of the need to value and have parity of esteem between academic qualifications and vocational qualifications. It is about the right students doing the right qualifications, and if those A-level students are going to do vocational qualifications, which we suspect they are, you've just undermined the very argument that your spokesperson was making earlier.