Sentences with phrase «ebacc school performance measure»

When announcing computer science would be the fourth science in the EBacc school performance measure, Michael Gove explained he was following the recommendations of our expert panel report, and that the new computer science GCSE would be added to the list of eligible qualifications provided we and the Royal Academy of Engineering agreed they meet the appropriate criteria.

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The provisional school results will include performance measures such as the percentage of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalents at A * to C, the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), and the Attainment 8 scores, showing average achievement across eight subjects, including English and maths, for those schools that have opted into the new accountability system a year early.

Worse from an ICT point of view, DfE also introduced around that time the EBacc performance measure for schools.

EBacc is a school performance measure, which was introduced in order for pupils to take up five core GCSE subjects such as science and history or geography.

In addition to this, eight in 10 (80 per cent) of the secondary school leaders surveyed by The Key maintain that the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) performance measure, in particular, is limiting opportunities for their pupils with vocational or technical aptitude.

Initial plans for the target had prompted fears that creative subjects could be squeezed out of the curriculum as schools rushed to focus on the five academic subjects included in the EBacc performance measure.

As of September, the EBacc system will become compulsory, meaning all pupils will have to study core subjects - English, maths, science, history or geography and a language - as part of a Government performance measure of schools.

The move has prompted criticism of the EBacc by the Association of School and College Leaders, whose general secretary Geoff Barton said it «increasingly looks like the performance measure that time forgot».

Attainment 8 is a new measure of attainment to judge school performance, which will be first seen in 2016 performance tables, and will include a threshold measure of the proportion of pupils achieving a C or above in the five Ebacc subject areas.

Since school spending per pupil has been relatively stable in real terms for the last seven years, allocating extra curriculum time and resources to teaching EBacc subjects may have often implied diverting them from non-EBacc subjects that offer less benefit in terms of school performance, as evaluated by the new headline measures.

There have been fears across the schools community that the government is pushing schools away from arts education with the introduction of the EBacc — a performance measure for ranking schools whose pupils secure a grade C or above across five «core» academic subjects: English, mathematics, history or geography, the sciences and a language.

The Ebacc performance measure makes the sciences, English language and literature, maths, a language and geography or history compulsory for secondary school pupils.