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the claim that it will help students to get into high status university. Parents, when polled, said they didn't need more indicators about their school but were worried about the narrowing of the curriculum and its impact on non-EBacc subjects. Additionally, almost all schools were experiencing significant problems with recruiting enough teachers of EBacc subjects, especially science and mathematics.
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Attainment 8 shows pupils’ average achievement in the same suite of subjects as the
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Published in 2019, this report shows that "Percentage of GCSE pupils entered for all EBacc components" flat-lined in 2014 at under 40%, and that "Percentage of GCSE pupils who pass all the EBacc components" flat-lined in 2013 at under 25%. It then comments on the Sutton Trust findings that the
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politician declared that under their office, the UK government would make the
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75% of year 10 pupils in state-funded mainstream schools will start to study GCSEs in the EBacc combination of subjects by
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