Many school leaders would be willing to sacrifice their Ofsted outstanding status rather than make the English Baccalaureate compulsory for all pupils.
Interim findings from a study involving more than 1,300 school leaders also reveal that a majority of schools will have to change their staffing and reduce their vocational offer in order to deliver a compulsory EBacc.
The research by the SSAT was carried out after education secretary Nicky Morgan unveiled plans last week to make the EBacc compulsory for students starting in year 7 this September. The 1,300 responses were registered in just three days.
The plan will mean that schools will have to enter these students for a full set of EBacc GCSEs – English, maths, science, a language and a humanity subject – when they begin key stage 4 in 2018.
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