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EBACC - meaningless or useful?

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Biscuitsneeded · 21/01/2019 13:53

Please can someone confirm for me that the EBACC is just a piece of Govery? ie. the balanced spread of subjects is desirable but not essential? And they don't actually gain anything by getting the Ebacc combination other than qualification for the one university that has stipulated it as a requirement? DS' school only gives them three options and he has 2 subjects he is burning to do (drama and politics) which means he can't then fit in a humanity AND a language... However, he's in top sets for everything and I foresee a battle when we tell them he can't fulfil the EBACC requirements. Just want to be sure of my facts! Many thanks.

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TeenTimesTwo · 21/01/2019 15:47

There isn't even one university stipulating it as a requirement.
The one you are thinking of just makes students study an MFL if they don't have the GCSE.

Only 3 options seems incredibly narrow if a humanity / MFL aren't already mandated. Are they mandating everyone does triple science or something?

titchy · 21/01/2019 15:46

Meaningless!