Will Quince – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Will Quince on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the trends in the level of uptake of (a) creative, (b) artistic and (c) technical subjects at GCSE since June 2015.

Nick Gibb

The Department for Education does not define GCSE subjects as ‘technical’ or ‘creative’.

Provisional information on the proportion of pupils entered for at least one arts GCSE between 2009/10 and 2015/16 is published as part of the ‘Provisional GCSE and equivalent results in England’ statistical first release (SFR)[1].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gcse-and-equivalent-results-2015-to-2016-provisional (Table 1c)

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