Jon Coles, the former director general for education standards at the Department for Education (DfE), has admitted that he was surprised by the fast reaction of those schools which moved their students away from non-EBacc courses so soon after the measure was announced.
Speaking at the annual conference of the British Educational Research Association in Manchester last week, Mr Coles said that schools had not been confident enough to ignore the EBacc and focus on what they believed to be right for their students.
The EBacc is given to students achieving five A* to C GCSEs in English, maths, science, a language, and either history or geography.
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