Sentences with phrase «english bac»
But his enthusiasm was not shared by the shadow education secretary, Andy Burnham, who described the English Bac as highly unfair and a 1950s measure.
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Announced by Education Secretary Michael Gove in the autumn, the new English Bac benchmark measures how many pupils in England achieved five GCSEs at grade C or above in English, maths, a language, two sciences and either geography or history.
There will be one exam board for these English Bac subjects rather than having different exam boards competing with their own versions.
These English Bac subjects will be assessed entirely by an external examination, with proposals for an end to all internal assessment.
«The English Bac, by focusing on such a narrow range of subjects, may prejudice the National Curriculum review and should not have been introduced before this had taken place.
This will mean that GCSEs will continue for some subjects alongside the new English Bacs over a number of years.