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Lords question for short debate on what steps they intend to take to protect and improve local arts and cultural services, including museums, libraries and archaeological services.
Lords question for short debate on what steps they intend to take to protect and improve local arts and cultural services, including museums, libraries and archaeological services.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are having discussions with examination boards about the possible continuation of the Archaeology A-level.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are having discussions with examination boards about the possible continuation of the Archaeology A-level.
Departmental officials have discussed this matter with the exam board and it is for individual boards to decide which qualifications to offer. It is disappointing that no board has come forward to develop a new A-level in archaeology for teaching from 2017.
The option for an exam board to develop qualifications in this subject in future will remain open. Archaeology A-level is not a pre-requisite for degree level study in the subject, and it is taken by a small number of students – 340 in 2015/16.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are taking steps to ensure that A-levels in (1) art history, and (2) archaeology, continue to be offered to new students.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are taking steps to ensure that A-levels in (1) art history, and (2) archaeology, continue to be offered to new students.
It is disappointing that AQA has taken the decision to withdraw from offering A levels in History of Art and Archaeology.
We published content for both subjects in January 2016. The option for AQA or another exam board to develop specifications in future will remain open. We are in discussion with the exam boards on this issue.
Neither subject is a pre-requisite for degree level study, and both are taken by a relatively small number of students. In 2015/16, there were 340 entries to A level Archaeology, and 776 entries to A level History of Art[1].
[1] Both figures cover examination results of students aged 16, 17 or 18 at the start of the academic year, i.e. 31 August.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to request that the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance reverse its decision to stop offering A-level archaeology to new students.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to request that the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance reverse its decision to stop offering A-level archaeology to new students.