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Written question asked by Baroness Coussins (Crossbench) on Wednesday, 21 June 2017, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 5 July 2017. It was answered by Lord Nash (Conservative) on Thursday, 29 June 2017 on behalf of the Department for Education.


English Baccalaureate

Question

Her Majesty's Government what is their target for the number of school pupils who will (1) study, and (2) achieve, the English Baccalaureate by 2022; what estimate they have made of the number of modern foreign language (MFL) teachers required to meet those targets; and what assessment they have made of the impact on the achievability of those targets of any current or future shortage in MFL teacher numbers

Answer

The Government believes that the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) provides the right educational foundation for the majority of pupils. We want to see a significant increase in the proportion of pupils in mainstream secondary schools entering the EBacc combination of subjects at GCSE.

We will publish further detail about the EBacc policy in due course.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL38
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Languages Teachers English baccalaureate
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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