What has Progress 8 done for the creative subjects?
There has been a small decrease in the proportion of young people entered for one or more qualifications in creative subjects since Progress 8 was introduced in 2016. But is Progress 8 to blame?
There has been a small decrease in the proportion of young people entered for one or more qualifications in creative subjects since Progress 8 was introduced in 2016. But is Progress 8 to blame?
Not only is physics graded more severely than other subjects at A level, students who take it often do so alongside other severely graded subjects.
What do the long-term trends tell us?
Schools Week last week published a handy summary of Ofqual’s release of summer 2017 examination entry statistics. It notes that entries in EBacc subjects have risen whilst entries in other subjects have fallen. This raises the question of whether the EBacc is crowding other subjects out of the curriculum. In defence of the EBacc, Schools [...]