Michael Gove has confirmed he is abandoning plans to introduce English Baccalaureate Certificates (EBCs) and will instead reform existing GCSE qualifications.
At the same time, the education secretary has unveiled proposals to substantially change accountability measures within the school league tables – moving to a pupil progress measure covering eight subjects and a threshold measure for English and maths. Both will feature in a new floor standard for schools.
Elsewhere, on a busy day for Mr Gove, he has published the draft national curriculum programmes of study for key stages 1 to 4.
The draft document sets out plans to retain all the existing subjects within the curriculum and includes the introduction of modern foreign languages at key stage 2. Mr Gove has published much shortened programmes of study for all subjects, except in English, maths and science where new programmes of study are more in-depth.
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