In one of our very early blogposts, which doesn’t even have charts in our well-loved livery, we wondered what the effect of Progress 8 would be on creative subjects.
This was because one of the aims of Progress 8 was to drive up entry in the English Baccalaureate subjects. Nearly everyone already entered English and maths so this was about increasing take-up of GCSEs in sciences, humanities and languages.
Given that English and maths are double weighted, then 70% of the “slots” in the Attainment 8 measure on which Progress 8 is based are English Baccalaureate (EBacc) subjects.
In fact, given that one of English language or literature can be included in the open ‘slots’ if both have been entered then you could even say 80% of it is EBacc based.
Some years have now passed. How have things changed?
