Half of all teenagers are failed by a school system which forces them to pursue academic studies, a landmark report says today.
Hundreds of thousands of youngsters better suited to practical work leave with poor qualifications because their skills go unrecognised.
Woodwork, metalwork and home economics have all but disappeared while geography field-work and science experiments are in decline, the six-year investigation concludes.
The Oxford-based Nuffield Review, the most comprehensive study of secondary education in 50 years, found those who are better suited to ‘learning by doing’ are simply not catered for.
