The English Baccalaureate, or EBacc, excludes creative, artistic and technical subjects from counting in key school league tables. It is undermining creativity in schools and we need your help to protect creative subjects.

What is the EBacc?

Why does this matter?
The Department for Education's new plans for the EBacc exclude creative, artistic and technical subjects.

The EBacc will make a minimum of seven GCSEs (and as many as nine) effectively compulsory for pupils in England.

The average number of GCSEs taken by pupils is between eight and nine: the EBacc will leave little room, if any, for creative, artistic and technical subjects.
Independent research has shown that EBacc has already had a harmful impact on the uptake of arts subjects at GCSE level.

All children and young people should have access to a broad and balanced curriculum that includes creative, artistic and technical subjects. There is no evidence to support the choice of subjects included in the EBacc.

Even more concerning, the creative industries are worth £92 billion a year to the UK economy; that is bigger than oil, gas, life sciences, automotive and aeronautics combined.

New resource - Arts in Schools: the arts advocacy toolkit from Bacc for the Future, CLA and What Next? 

Published in partnership between Bacc for the Future, CLA and What Next? Arts in Schools is a useful toolkit for arts activists and teachers to refer to and use when advocating and championing arts education. The pack includes vital information and advice to help make the case to keep arts in schools, including how to write letters to local MPs and Councillors, the National Schools Commissioner and members of the Education Select Committee.​
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