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The core skills our young people need

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We have a duty to think deeply about what it is that young people need to be taught and need to be able to do in a future where there will be very few jobs for life, says Dr Mary Bousted

A recent report by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) has confirmed that entries to arts subjects at GCSE level have declined over the past couple of years, following several years of gradual increases. The 2016 entry rates are the lowest of the decade.

This fall is deeply concerning. It is not happening because young people are choosing not to take art, music, dance and drama at GCSE, but because schools, whose performance is measured in the percentage of students taking EBacc subjects, are forced to limit student choice (often students are left with just one GCSE subject to choose to study in addition to EBacc subjects).

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