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The analysis suggests that the weight given to EBacc subjects in the school curriculum has grown steadily since the introduction of the EBacc measure in 2010, for pupils of all ages in secondary schools.
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She said the ebacc was «intended to try to encourage schools to offer a wider breadth of subjects and encourage pupils to stay in the kind of academic subjects that will help them» in the future.
The DfE introduced the EBacc in an attempt to persuade schools to focus on subjects they believed were of paramount importance.
A balanced curriculum With children required to study EBacc subjects to GCSE level, it's easy to see that the creative pathways for our school children are disappearing, which will slowly result in funding for creative subject areas being cut, leading to options for our children being vastly reduced.
73 percent of respondents said they would be more inclined to support the requirement if the subject choice was more flexible, and 74 per cent indicated that their school does not have enough teachers in the EBacc subjects, highlighting the current issue of teacher shortages across the country.
With the rhetoric of EBacc it would be easy to imagine that creative subjects in schools are optional «fun» alongside the core subjects.
In schools where the number of children obtaining the EBacc was above the national average in 2015 - 2016, 73.2 per cent of pupils taking up an arts subject achieved grades A * - C - compared to the national average of 71.7 per cenIn schools where the number of children obtaining the EBacc was above the national average in 2015 - 2016, 73.2 per cent of pupils taking up an arts subject achieved grades A * - C - compared to the national average of 71.7 per cenin 2015 - 2016, 73.2 per cent of pupils taking up an arts subject achieved grades A * - C - compared to the national average of 71.7 per cent.
Government figures show the amount of GCSE candidates in state - funded schools who took EBacc subjects increased from 22 per cent in 2010, to nearly 40 per cent last year.
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.
Music in schools could become non-existent in the future because of pressure on pupils to take EBacc subjects, researchers have warned.
It has been suggested that some school timetables are crammed with only Ebacc subjects as a sort of «insurance policy curriculum» in an attempt to maintain healthy positions under the Ofsted scoring system.
The exclusion of creative subjects from the EBacc remit; subject silos; out - dated subject orthodoxies; teacher shortages and financial and academic pressures on schools weighed down by accountability measures are creating a perfect storm in which students will be those affected in the short term and society in the long term.
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A statement from Arts Council England added that it would «continue to work with government and other partners to ensure the EBacc does not reduce cultural subject selection or the opportunity to access arts subjects in schools».
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Commenting on the release yesterday of secondary school performance data for England in 2015/16, teachers union NAHT says pupils who would be more suited to a broader range of GCSE subjects are not being served well by having their subjects restricted by EBacc.
«Last summer's results showed thousands more students taking GCSEs in arts or music subjects compared to the previous year and the percentage of pupils in state - funded school with at least one arts GCSE has increased since the EBacc was introduced.
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.
Most notably, schools with higher levels of per - pupil GCSE arts entries got above average results in the EBacc, Progress 8 and Attainment 8, suggesting that the best state secondary schools in England are those that combine high expectations in a core of academic subjects with a strong focus on the arts.
«I know it will take time for our nation's schools to enter 90 per cent of pupils for the EBacc subjects and I do not underestimate the challenge involved in meeting this ambition from our current position.
Delta Academies Trust, formerly the School Partnership Trust Academies, lost more than 100 staff last year and removed a number of creative subjects from its curriculum to prioritise the more academic subjects found in the EBacc.
There is only so much time in a curriculum and forcing schools to deliver the EBacc's seven GCSEs (English language, literature, Maths, core and additional science (at least), history or geography, and a language) leave very little time to study anything else: especially when most schools want to offer eight subjects due to the size of the new exams.
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.
However, extra places will also be made available for PE, provided trainees have an A-level in an EBacc subject, so they're capable of teaching the subject when in school.
The Ebacc is narrowing the curriculum and pushes secondary school children into taking subjects they don't necessarily have an interest in.
Since the EBacc was introduced, the percentage of state school pupils entered for at least one GCSE in an arts subject has increased from 46 per cent to 50 per cent.
He called for both Progress 8 and the EBacc to be scrapped, and for schools to be inspected on a «case - by - case» basis on their outcomes in all subjects and the depth and breadth of their curriculum.
Government accountability measures such as the EBacc have been criticised for narrowing the curriculum in schools, with many seen to be prioritising more academic subjects at the expenses of creative areas.
«There is little information here about teacher quality, but more deprived schools also have slightly lower levels of subject - specialist teaching in Ebacc subjects.
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.
A potential factor behind the shift in KS3 curriculum time towards EBacc subjects is that some schools have shifted from a traditional three - year KS3 to a shortened two - year version, enabling study for GCSE courses to run over three years.
«We know that the EBacc policy has reduced the breadth of subjects offered in many secondary schools, limited opportunities for students, and driven many staff out of the teaching profession.
The government says this suggests that state - funded mainstream schools have been able to «accommodate large increases in EBacc entry rate without affecting the proportion of pupils entering at least one arts subject».
Further research released by the government today on «trends in arts subjects in schools where English Baccalaureate entry has increased» found the proportion of pupils entering at least one arts subject has remained broadly stable, both for schools whose EBacc entry has seen a large increase and for other schools.
When the Progress 8 measure for schools was implemented in 2016, we saw an increase of more than 10 percentage points in the proportion of pupils entered for four of the EBacc subjects (English, maths, science, languages, computing science, history and geography).
Despite national concerns around the EBacc narrowing the curriculum, Liverpool school, The Studio, is proving student passion for creative subjects is still in full force.
Sir Michael said, in his monthly commentary, that the government wanted most pupils who started secondary school last September to take the full suite of English Baccalaureate (EBacc) subjects, including science and a foreign language, when they sat their GCSEs, in 2020.
However, the Civitas think tank is warning that the EBacc could disadvantage the poorest students because the pressure of league tables could lead to schools discouraging students from taking non-compulsory subjects if they were not expected to get a C or above in them.
They say music is being squeezed because of pressure on pupils to take subjects included in the EBacc school league table measure.
Although more creative subjects like music, drama and art will continue to be offered by schools, critics of the EBacc say pupils could be discouraged from taking them in favour of more academic subjects and have warned that arts subjects could be pushed out of schools and become the «preserve of the elite».
This is the government that encouraged people to open free schools in office blocks and presided over the sale of playing fields, abandoned nutritional guidelines for school meals because they were too «nanny state» and is squeezing subjects like PE and Dance through the EBacc.
The Conservatives pledged in the general election that all children beginning secondary school from this academic year must study the EBacc subjects until the end of year 11.
Schools taking part in the pilot will be able to sign teachers up to a «package of support» in eight EBacc subjects — English, maths, biology, chemistry, physics, modern languages, history and geography, and computing science.
We showed that whilst movement in and out of teaching remains relatively stable, with a steady 10 % joining and a corresponding 10 % leaving each year, aspects such as growing class sizes and shortages in specific school phases and in subjects (specifically EBacc subjects) mean that the topic remains significant.
We are writing to express our grave concern about the exclusion of arts and creative subjects from the new English Baccalaureate, or EBacc, for secondary school children, which we believe will seriously damage the future of many young people in this country.