An increasingly academic school system is resulting in weaker provision in technical and creative subjects in secondary schools and is letting down vocationally minded pupils.
These are among the findings in the annual State of Education research, which analyses the views of more than 2,000 school leaders in England.
The study this year also finds that a large majority of the school leaders believe too much focus is being placed on academic testing as a measure of pupils’ success.
Furthermore, during the past two years they say they have seen an increasing “fear of failure” among their pupils.
The research has been carried out by school leadership support organisation The Key and reveals that 73 per cent of the respondents believe the school system should do more to provide “better outcomes for vocationally and technically minded pupils”.
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