will my son be disavantaged if he doesnt have the ebac?

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My son was looking forward to dropping mfl in yr 10 (although hes targeted to get a B)but now having been informed about the english bac he feels that he HAS to take french or spanish. I am concerned that he will not enjoy the subject and wonder how important the bac is to pupils. His school have informed us that most uni s will only take pupils with the bac, but I am realy confused as I didnt think that gcse s were taken into concideration at uni. I feel completely out of my depth with this matter as I dont seem to fully understand the whole further ed system ( never having had the oppotunity to go through it myself).
I hope some one can offer some advice, please.
He has to hand his options paperwork in tommorow!

As wordfactory says in earlier post, taking a core of academic subjects is nothing new. People are posturing on here and huffing and puffing about "the Government", but in my day (ahem, that would be 30 years ago) we had to do English, English, Maths, Science (although it could be one out of the three), History/Geography and an MFL as a minimum. And in my mother's day there was School Certificate which was worse - you had to pass all the subjects or get nowt.

I did my GCSEs in 1996. At my school the ebacc subjects were compulsory with optional extras such as pe, re, art, music and drama. It shows a good rounded education and I would wish my dc to go to a school with high ebacc attainment. One of my younger relatives just did a dance Btec and a business Btec, each was said to be equivalent of 4 GCSEs. She then did maths, English and science, thus 11 GCSEs.

the facts are though that only 2 facilitating subjects are required at A level for a RG uni.

The facts are that the A levels/GCSEs for RG unis need to be very high grades; the facts are that it is not only business degrees that suggest A Level Business would be an advantage....

There is no point just studying purely academic subjects unless you are 100% positive that you are going to get high grades; RG ambition or not. There are sometimes the need to study something different which learns different skills (not just the subject content)

gramercy and ruddy well quite.

cricket what is required and what you need to actually get a place are not one and the same.

but wordfactory too often I have seen choices made for only 'academic' subjects where the student in question would not attain the A/A* grades that these courses/unis require. Far better to show a range of skills/subjects with high grades than academic ones with average grades

but I must ask why you place music above business/textiles?