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<p>The government wants all young people to benefit from a broad and balanced education
that equips them with the knowledge, skills and character they need to thrive in modern
Britain and realise their full potential. Arts and humanities subjects form part of
a broad and balanced curriculum. Our expectation is that every child should experience
a high quality arts and humanities education. That is why the national curriculum
sets the expectation that pupils study these subjects in key stages 1 to 3.</p><p>At
key stage 4, the government wants to increase the number of pupils who take GCSEs
in the EBacc subjects of English, maths, science, history or geography and a language.
These are the subjects that give young people the most options in their futures and
will help to secure a place at university or in employment.</p><p>As the EBacc is
a specific, limited measure consisting of five subject pillars and up to eight GCSEs,
there is time in the curriculum for most pupils to study other valuable subjects.
The proportion of pupils in state-funded schools taking at least one GCSE in an arts
subject has increased since the EBacc was first introduced, rising from 46% in 2011
to 50% in 2015.</p>
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