The head of Ofsted has blamed a decline in computing and technology classes on pupils being given too much “freedom of choice”.
Amanda Spielman, the chief inspector at the education watchdog, told the House of Lords education committee that a national decline was due to a “tremendous amount of freedom in the current model . . . allowing children to make such life-changing decisions at such an early age”.
She said that a continued decline in technological subjects — such as design and technology and digital technology classes — was a result of children being allowed to “select themselves out of many GCSE subjects or many other curriculum subjects at age 13 or 14”.
