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How Burnham’s education reforms could mean teenagers take fewer GCSE exams
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close Cancel email WhatsApp link share Share bookmark SaveAndy Burnham’s Education Secretary has signalled plans for changes to the school curriculum, while criticising Conservatives for prioritising academic learning over technical education.
The Francis report recommended that teenagers take fewer GCSE exams because of concerns they are being taught to the test, and becoming stressed.
Powell is understood to want to go further in allowing children to concentrate on technical subjects at an earlier age, The Times reported.
Cutting back GCSE examsThe Francis report recommended cutting three hours from the total length of GCSE exams, and reducing the course content of several GCSE subjects including history and the sciences.
Following it, Sir Keir Starmer’s Department for Education (DfE) confirmed it would reduce the time pupils spent in GCSE exams, and accepted many of the recommendations.