English Baccalaureate: IGCSE
(asked on 24th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of GCSE entries in EBACC subjects in (a) state and (b) independent schools were IGCSEs in 2018.
For pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 in 2018, the number of international GCSE entries in EBacc subjects and their proportion of GCSE and equivalent entries in EBacc subjects in 2017/18 is provided below:
Institution type | Number of international | As a proportion of GCSE |
| GCSE entries in EBacc subjects | and equivalents in EBacc subjects |
State-funded | 2,015 | 0.1% |
Independent | 23,712 | 13.6% |
Other (e.g. PRUs and AP) | 315 | 1.7% |
All schools | 26,042 | 0.8% |
As our reformed GCSEs have been introduced, international GCSEs in equivalent subjects have been removed from the school and college performance tables. The majority of international GCSEs therefore do not count towards the EBacc in 2018. For pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 in 2018, the number of entries in approved international GCSEs (those which count in the performance tables) in EBacc subjects, and their proportion of all GCSE and equivalent entries in 2017/18 in these subjects which are counted in performance tables, is provided below:
Institution type | Number of international | As a proportion of GCSE |
| GCSE entries in EBacc subjects | and equivalents in EBacc subjects |
State-funded | 4 | 0.0% |
Independent | 127 | 0.1% |
All schools | 131 | 0.0% |