Work experience placements must be reinvented, former education secretaries say

The traditional model of a fixed work experience placement for teenagers in the summer term needs to be reinvented, two former education secretaries have said.

Baroness Morgan of Cotes and Lord Blunkett, who were education secretaries in previous Conservative and Labour administrations, have called for work experience to not only be a “one-off event”.

should have an “ongoing” and “meaningful” relationship with secondary schools and colleges and they should move away from a “rigid