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Re the Gove English BAC.
That's pretty much the curriculum one would have taken as an O level student at a Grammar or Public School in the 70s. I served time in both.
Though we did have an arts/ science split at 14, what we called the 4th form and the Scientists did one less " arts" subject and the Arts form did one less " science " subject. But very few of us could have coped with the EB.
Peter_Carter
@mespilus
The 'English Baccalaureate' is a resource-wasting legacy of Gove's reign at the Department of Education. The French Baccalaureate is an acknowledged system of giving 18 year olds a rounded education. The International Baccalaureate allows the offspring of location jumping international executives to gain a seamless education that will allow (if so chosen) university applications.
Gove's tawdry English Baccalaureate is an envelope for 16+ exams.
it is simply a combination of (sensible) subjects that would normally be pursued by the Alpha stream in any Secondary school, (from memory, Eng Language, Eng Literature, Mathematics, the three Sciences, Religious Education, then four options, History, Geography, and a language, with the preposterous reintroduction of Latin over modern European languages and IT),
with, of course no additional funding, and
the added twist that all Secondary Schools are now measured by how many of their pupils gain the 'EB', (as I guess no-one calls it).
At mespilus jr's Secondary School, 2 classes of 30 for Triple Science soon dwindled to one class of 31, as pupils were unable to cope with the workload which included a compulsory extra hour of tuition each week, for Science, Spanish, Mathematics and IT.
This meant those 29 pupils would not qualify for the EB.
Latin crept in as the newly self-academised school was a beneficiary of the outreach program from Harrow School.