{"id":49239,"date":"2014-10-24T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T14:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=29f784534ffe16e54e5e1a5e6b801275"},"modified":"2014-10-24T14:02:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T14:02:02","slug":"press-release-schools-plan-to-increase-focus-on-maths-new-report-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=49239","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Schools plan to increase focus on maths, new report shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Schools across the country are planning to boost the amount of time and staff devoted to teaching maths, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/teacher-voice-omnibus-questions-for-the-dfe\">surveys<\/a> out today (24\/10\/14) show, giving more young people a greater knowledge and understanding of the subject.<\/p>\n<p>The surveys revealed that ahead of the introduction of a new, more demanding maths <abbr title=\"General Certificates of Secondary Education\">GCSE<\/abbr> to be taught from next September:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>more than a quarter of schools planned to increase the amount of maths taught per week<\/li>\n<li>half of schools were introducing training programmes for maths teachers<\/li>\n<li>more than one-third of schools said they had recruited additional staff to prepare for the new maths <abbr title=\"General Certificates of Secondary Education\">GCSE<\/abbr>\n<\/li>\n<li>more than three-quarters of senior leaders said they were confident that their school\u2019s curriculum reflects the new national curriculum for maths<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new reformed <abbr title=\"General Certificates of Secondary Education\">GCSE<\/abbr> will demand a deeper and broader understanding of mathematical concepts, which is likely to require more teaching time. An international study from 2011 showed England lagged behind other countries in maths provision but today\u2019s news shows this is reversing, thanks to the government\u2019s plan for education.<\/p>\n<p>Encouraging more pupils to study maths is a key part of the government\u2019s plan for education. Young people with an A level in maths go on to earn 7% to 10% more than similarly educated people without this qualification.<\/p>\n<p>School Reform Minister Nick Gibb said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is very welcome news that teachers are driving forward the changes needed to help more young people than ever before fulfil their academic potential. Our plan for education is ensuring more pupils will benefit from an increased focus on maths and other key academic subjects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Not only do employers value subjects such as maths, English, the sciences and humanities, but having a good grounding in these key fields gives students the knowledge and confidence needed to thrive in modern Britain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Today\u2019s figures also show teachers are encouraging more students to take up challenging and valuable <abbr title=\"General Certificates of Secondary Education\">GCSE<\/abbr> options. Previously, too many pupils were leaving school without the qualifications needed to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. Today\u2019s surveys show this is changing &#8211; more than 4 in 10 school leaders said they are encouraging more pupils to enter English Baccalaureate GCSEs, including English and maths, the sciences, humanities and languages.<\/p>\n<p>The English Baccalaureate &#8211; the <abbr title=\"English Baccalaureate\">EBacc<\/abbr> &#8211; was introduced to performance tables in 2010 to encourage more schools to offer a broad set of academic subjects. If a pupil achieves a C or better in English, maths, a language, history or geography, and 2 sciences, then they achieve the <abbr title=\"English Baccalaureate\">EBacc<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2010 the proportion of pupils entered for <abbr title=\"English Baccalaureate\">EBacc<\/abbr> has risen by more than 60%, giving thousands more pupils the qualifications needed to secure a good job, apprenticeship or place at university.<\/p>\n<p>Further figures published this summer show that the number of students going on to study maths and science at A level has risen dramatically since June 2010:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>biology is up 10.7%<\/li>\n<li>chemistry up 21.5%<\/li>\n<li>physics up 18.5%<\/li>\n<li>maths up 15.3%<\/li>\n<li>further maths up 20.1%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/teacher-voice-omnibus-questions-for-the-dfe\">View the survey<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The surveys were carried out between March 2014 and June 2014 and involved 3,855 responses from teachers and senior leaders from schools across England.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_997\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>DfE enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Central newsdesk<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7783 8300\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">General enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              0370 000 2288\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surveys show schools are placing a greater emphasis on maths and other important academic subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}