Leaders have welcomed a government decision to pause plans announced just five months ago to shake up the EBacc accountability measure to “incentivise” take up.
Last September, the Department for Education said it would “explore making changes to the headline EBacc attainment measure” – which is an “average point score” for EBacc subjects.
The measure gives schools a score across the five pillars of the EBacc, which are English, maths, science, a language and history or geography.
The DfE said it wanted to “move to a headline EBacc attainment measure that incentivises full EBacc” for this September.
