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English baccalaureate

May 2024

  • Teenagers in school uniforms in a drama class

    Fewer pupils in England studying drama and media at GCSE and A-level

    Figures show statistics, computing, physics and maths have risen in popularity and languages bouncing back

February 2024

  • Polly Toynbee

    The manifesto Britain needs
    The Tories have sucked the joy from the education system. Here are three ways Labour can bring it back

    Polly Toynbee
    Keir Starmer should revitalise Sure Start, focus on children’s happiness – and give a crucial boost to further education, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

July 2023

  • Sixth form student in laboratory during science class.<br>A04N9D Sixth form student in laboratory during science class.

    We’re behind Andy Burnham’s technical education revolution

  • Andy Burnham

    Greater Manchester is revolutionising technical education – whether London likes it or not

    Andy Burnham

February 2023

  • Students using laptops and textbooks to study in class

    ChatGPT allowed in International Baccalaureate essays

    Content created by chatbot must be treated like any other source and attributed when used, says IB

August 2020

  • Poetry saved me. Don’t deny it to next generation, pleads award-winner

    Rhythm, humour and politics of verse give young people a voice, says poet. Making it optional at GCSE is a mistake

February 2020

  • Free school meals

    Attainment gap widens between disadvantaged pupils and their peers

    DfE breakdown of GCSE results in England shows an increase for second year in a row

October 2019

  • Violin lessons at St Lawrence primary school

    Letters: the arts are vital for young people

  • Children drawing at school

    The Guardian view on creativity in schools: a missing ingredient

May 2019

  • Musicians playing together in classroom.

    Russell Group scraps preferred A-levels list after arts subjects hit

    Creative subjects will be given greater prominence on new website for students

January 2019

  • Singing is the most popular form of music-making among children.

    Two-thirds of British children make music, study finds

    Youth Music poll shows a massive rise in music-making among young people – especially among those from lower-income backgrounds

August 2018

  • Only dramatic intervention would change girls’ low take-up of physics and maths, the researchers said.

    Girls with top science GCSEs 'deterred from study at higher level'

  • Michael Palin

    Geography a force for broadening the mind, says Michael Palin

July 2018

  • Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who won the BBC Young Musician award 2016. Photographed at St John's Smith Square in London, September 2016 Commissioned for Film and Music

    Sheku Kanneh-Mason is a state school success story. He may never have a successor

    Cuts to music A-levels and GCSEs could endanger the supply of teachers and performers and make the subject elitist again

May 2018

  • A music class in a school

    The Guardian view on educational priorities: arts not grammars

  • Pupils having music lessons at the Sacred Heart Catholic primary school in Liverpool

    Arts and creative subjects enrich children and society

  • Pupils at an art class at a secondary school

    Artists condemn exclusion of arts subjects from English baccalaureate

  • A secondary school pupil in an art class

    British artists: Ebacc will damage creativity and self-expression

January 2018

  • Dr Rory Fox teaching a GCSE Latin class at Ryde academy on the Isle of Wight.

    Latin lessons dying out in state schools

    Letter: Gina Johnson, head of classics at High Storrs school, Sheffield, on financial and curriculum pressures killing her subjects off

September 2017

  • Students during an art class at a secondary school

    Proportion of students taking arts subjects falls to lowest level in decade

    Education Policy Institute says schools in England have cut number of pupils taking subjects such as dance and fine art after cuts and policy changes
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