Just before Christmas the Prime Minister no less announced a new “policy flavour” [1] that all students would continue to study maths to age 18.
Better minds than mine will have ideas whether this is a good idea (or not).
But we can at least look at some numbers.
These show that young people who achieve grades 4 to 6 in maths at GCSE tend not to enter qualifications in maths post-16.
