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Sutton Trust response to the UPP Foundation Inquiry into Widening Participation
07 Apr 2025
Our Changing the subject research brief was covered in The Times.
Secondary schools that were among the fastest to adopt Michael Gove’s reforms when he was education secretary have had a vast increase in pupils taking traditional subjects, a report by the Sutton Trust says. The 300 schools that quickly introduced the English Baccalaureate – a suite of GCSEs comprising English, maths and two sciences, a humanities and a foreign language – saw uptake of these subjects rise from 8 percent to 48 percent in only 3 years.
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