'People don't see it as a real course - but we've turned down multiple job offers'

Students at a Manchester college say people can be 'weird' about their technical qualifications and even deem it to be 'not a real course'.

Ivy Sharples, Megan Young and Sana Mahmood were among the students collecting their results at the Manchester College in Openshaw today (August 14).

All proud and 'chuffed' with their results, the three all studied a T Level in Education and Early Years, but are all going on to different university courses: psychology with counselling, primary education, and education, society and culture respectively.

“There was an assembly at my school in year 11 about T Levels, and everything they listed off was everything I was looking for," said Ivy. "It had all the experience built in. It really interlinks with employers."

“After our work placements, we all g