It has been one year since the Department for Education (DfE) published a consultation detailing its plans but its webpage states that it is still “analysing your feedback”.
This is despite the consultation closing in January 2016 and the consultation document stating that the “consultation and the Department’s response will be published in spring 2016”. A revised publication date has not been confirmed by the DfE.
The delay is concerning for schools because of the fact that the proposals, if enacted, would require 90 per cent of pupils currently in year 8 in England to take the full suite of EBacc GCSEs.
The proposals delivered on a Conservative Party General Election manifesto pledge that every child should study the EBacc subjects by 2020 – although this was later revised to 90 per cent by previous education secretary Nicky Morgan.
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