Can anyone explain the EBACC to me please?

[mrsshears]

Hi sorry for my clueless post but options are a new thing for me, my dd knows she is taking all the required/mandatory options and will be taking geography,art,drama and german for the others.
On the options booklet that has been sent home she can either take the traditional GCSE route or this new EBACC route but i have no idea what the difference is? do they both count as gcse's? i will call dd's teacher tomorrow to find out more but i just thought i would ask here first
TIA

Time to fight back, all students do NOT fit the same mould! The eBacc is a waste of time for any student who is not academic, you have to do English, maths, science, like now, but HAVE to do a language, a humanity or two, there is currently no compulsion for arts, including drama, textiles. Fight for your child's right to be educated in what they want! I now have 3 University degrees, but could never pass history or French. It makes me so angry that the government, elected by less than 50% of the population can dictate your child's future!
Fight back now, insist at your school that your child in Y10 follows the subjects they ENJOY. As a school governor and in industry, I want motivated employees, not brow beaten muppets, with the minimum of GCSE's, imagine a farmers kid, why do French? The sheep/cattle do not speak it! Some students struggle with English, why make them do stuff they will never be able to do, crazy!

Insist your child follows the options they want, many school heads are dead set against this eBacc! Fight for your child's rights, schools are scared of parents pulling out as the number of students are falling in schools, they are fighting for students, many small schools will close very soon!

And to add to the confusion there is the iBacc which is a different qualification to the EBacc and done by some schools rather than A-levels.

THREE YEAR OLD THREAD ARIMMER!!!!!!!

So, you read it!

I posted on the original thread! Progress 8 is the performance measure now I believe rather than EBacc anyway.

rimmer- it's 'industry' that is demanding this crap, by insisting that school leavers are 'employment-ready' rather than training them on the job as they used to.

Farmers do actually export/import to/from France
Or heaven forbid a child may actually learn a language for the sheer enjoyment/mental workout it gives them.

titchy- govt have just announced all pupils will do English, maths, a language, Geog or Hist, and science. No choice.

I got into Cambridge but my subjects would not qualify for Ebacc. Ignore the Ebacc - made up by Michael Gove to try to enforce his personal view about what real subjects are. Unis do like to see some "proper subjects" but it does not have to be what Michael Gove likes! Ignoring iGCEs is just nonsense.

When the school talk about different "routes" they may actually be talking about what they think is best for different ability groups of pupils. If your DD is bright they may say she is required to do suited to the EBACC. Schools don't necessarily want to push everyone into this route though as it won't help their league table position to have lots of kids made to do subjects such as languages which they'll fail to get a C at, so those kids (most likely not top set at languages currently) will be directed to the "GCSE non-EBACC route" as they're calling it. The even less academic kids may be directed to a third route which is more vocational with just English and maths GCSEs and then some vocational subjects.

In reality there will be a timetable with subjects running in different blocks, with the more popular subjects in more than one block. Your DD ought to be able to take whatever she wants from each block, but the school may advise or compel her to take certain options that will be good for either her or their own performance measures. My DS's school was quite willing to mislead students about the significance of the EBACC, claiming it was a requirement for most university admissions, which is completely untrue.