The Department for Children Schools and Families (previously called Department for Education and Skills [DfES]) outlines the aims of the programme below.
"The 14-19 reforms will give all young people the opportunity to choose a mix of learning which motivates, interests and challenges them, and which gives them the knowledge, skills and attitude they need to succeed in education, work, and life.
We believe that every young person has potential and that the job of our education system is to develop that potential, so that all young people have opportunities through effort and application to qualify themselves for further learning and work.
The system of the future will be configured even more around the needs of young people: making sure that all young people are able to stay in learning post-16 and that as they do, more are able to achieve; that qualifications and curriculum become a progressively more engaging experience and valuable preparation; that we ensure that those qualifications are well taught and delivered; and that we make these new opportunities universally available to all young people.
In developing an educational experience that meets the needs of all young people we aim to improve opportunity year on year; so that each cohort of young people is offered more than the last. That means focusing as hard on raising achievement and participation now as on the longer term reforms of qualifications and curriculum that will provide new opportunities in the future."
The Department for Children Schools and Families is committed to developing a system of 14-19 education matching the best anywhere; a system where all young people have opportunities to learn in ways which motivate and engage them and through hard work to qualify themselves for success in life.
Further information on 14-19 Education and Skills can be found on the following website:
Building Schools for the Future (BSF)