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<p>All young people should, as part of a broad and balanced education, acquire a firm
grasp of the history of the country in which they live, and learn how different events
and periods relate to each other. That is why the history curriculum, taught in maintained
schools for key stages 1 to 3 from September 2014, sets out, within a clear chronological
framework, the core knowledge that will enable pupils to know and understand the history
of Britain from its first settlers to the development of the institutions that help
to define our national life today.</p><p>The new GCSE content criteria require a minimum
of 40 per cent British history, an increase from the 25 per cent required under the
previous GCSE. The A level content criteria require a minimum of 20 per cent British
history. The new GCSE will be taught from 2016, with first examination in 2018. The
new A level has been taught since September 2015, with first examination in 2017.</p><p>Alongside
geography, history is one of the two subjects in the humanities pillar of the EBacc.
The EBacc consists of the core group of subjects that provide a rigorous academic
education and the government’s goal is that, in time, 90 per cent of pupils will enter
GCSEs in the EBacc subjects. The numbers studying GCSE history had been stagnant for
a decade before the introduction of the EBacc. With the introduction of the EBac performance
measures the proportion of the cohort entered for history in state fundedschools has
risen from 30 per cent of pupils in 2010 to a provisional figure of 40 per cent in
2015.</p>
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