Arts: GCSE

(asked on 3rd September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the exclusion of arts subjects from the English Baccalaureate on the uptake of those subjects.


Answered by
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Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 11th September 2018

An analysis, published in July 2017, of the trends in arts uptake in state-funded mainstream schools where EBacc entry had seen a large increase since 2010/11 showed little correlation between the change in EBacc entry and the change in arts uptake. The small correlation that exists suggested that schools where EBacc entry had increased tended to have also seen an increase in their arts uptake. The 297 schools that had increased their EBacc entry rates by 40 percentage points or more between 2011 and 2016, on average entered 48.6% of their pupils for at least one arts subject. This was almost the same as for other state-funded schools (48.9%). This analysis can be found at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/trends-in-arts-subjects-in-schools-with-increased-ebacc-entry

The proportion of pupils taking at least one arts GCSE subject has stayed relatively stable since 2010; and between 2010 and 2017 the proportion of hours spent teaching the arts in secondary schools has also remained broadly stable.

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