The UK’s first Vocational Celebration Day will take place on Thursday 6 August, nine days after Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced that pupils in England will be offered technical education pathways from the age of 14.
The event is organised by Enginuity, the engineering and manufacturing skills charity, and EAL, its awarding and end-point assessment organisation. It will be hosted by the broadcaster Steph McGovern from Teagle, an agricultural machinery manufacturer in Truro, Cornwall.
Enginuity said the hour-long programme, a special edition of the Steph on Skills podcast, will be streamed live on YouTube and social platforms at 10am, provided free of charge to news organisations, and will feature learners, employers, educators and government figures.
The charity said the day will be marked annually on the first Thursday of August, placing it a week before A-level results day.
Burnham set out the technical pathways on 28 July. According to the Prime Minister’s Office, students from Year 10 will be able to combine core academic subjects including English, maths and science with technical education linked to jobs available in their area, alongside work experience and employer-set projects. The Government said it wants to begin rolling out the routes from September 2028.
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