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Arts: Secondary Education

Question for Department for Education

UIN HL3402, tabled on 3 December 2014

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Nash on 27 November (HL Deb, col 1094), (1) what is the source of the figures about key stage 4 examination entries; (2) what is the numerical breakdown of entries for each subject; and (3) for (a) music, (b) art and design, and (c) drama, which examinations are included in the category "all key stage 4 exams".

Answered on

16 December 2014

The source of the key stage 4 (KS4) examination entries is the 2012/13 KS4 performance tables data. The numerical breakdown for each subject is as follows:

2010

2011

2012

2013

% change 2010-2013

Art and Design

194,276

192,542

196,202

202,091

4%

Drama

113,479

113,130

112,790

116,414

3%

Music

53,471

54,866

56,204

57,205

7%

Entry level, GCSE, vocational GCSE, iGCSE, national vocational qualifications (NVQ), vocationally related qualifications (VRQ), Business and Technical Education (BTEC) and OCR national qualifications are included in the “all key stage 4 examinations” category.

The 2014 figures relating specifically to GCSEs, quoted at the end of my answer, were based on data which was published by Ofqual[1] in May 2014.

[1] http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20141031163546/http://ofqual.gov.uk/standards/statistics/provisional-gcse-igcse-entries/