The government has watered down its rules on T-level industry placements – including by allowing up to a fifth of hours to be delivered remotely in certain subjects.
Updated delivery guidance published today states that there is now only an “expectation” that students will “spend the majority of their placement hours in-person, within an external workplace setting”.
Previous rules had made clear that all placements, which must be a minimum of 315-hours (45 days), “cannot be delivered virtually/remotely, except for work taster activities”.
The new Department for Education guidance does not say how many hours it will allow to be done outside of the workplace across every subject.
