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<p>The number and percentage of students taking design and technology (D&T) and
art and design qualifications is set out in the attached tables.</p><p>The government
believes that both art and design and D&T are important subjects. All state maintained
secondary schools must teach art and design and D&T to pupils aged 5-14. There
is also a statutory entitlement for every pupil aged 14-16 to take D&T and an
arts subject, if they wish to do so.</p><p>Like maintained schools, academies must
provide a broad and balanced curriculum. Ofsted’s new inspection arrangements, which
will be introduced in September, place a renewed focus on schools ensuring all pupils
receive a broad, balanced and ambitious curriculum.</p><p>The arts are an essential
part of a broad and balanced education and high-quality arts education should not
be the preserve of the elite, but the entitlement of every single child. Between 2016-20,
we are spending almost £500 million on a range of arts and cultural education programmes.</p><p>At
primary school, data from the Teacher Voice Omnibus 2016 survey revealed that the
average amount of time spent teaching art and design and D&T was broadly similar
to the amount of time spent teaching history and geography. GCSE art and design remains
a popular choice and 2019 Ofqual provisional GCSE data shows the proportion of pupils
taking this subject has increased since 2018.</p><p>The department has worked closely
with organisations such as the James Dyson Foundation and Royal Academy of Engineering
to strengthen the new D&T curriculum and GCSE. The new GCSE will be taken for
the first time in summer 2019. To improve the quality of teaching D&T in schools,
the department offers D&T graduates bursaries of up to £12,000 to enter the profession.</p><p>Both
art and design and D&T GCSEs count towards the progress and attainment 8 secondary
accountability measures, which is the headline measure of secondary school performance.</p><p>
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