In October, the DfE announced changes to this summer’s Key Stage 4 performance tables, adding the percentage of pupils entered for an EBacc language (and triple science) as headline measures. They also announced a consultation on plans to incentivise take-up of the full EBacc – you can read our thoughts here.
Schools have two potential “levers” to pull if they want to respond to “incentives” to increase language entries:
- add more classes
- add more pupils to existing classes
Clearly, for option 1. to be feasible on a national scale, we’d need a big increase in the supply of languages teachers. So in this post, we’ll be looking at what kind of increase could be achieved by option 2.
