And in design and technology, entries among GCSE students fell by 23 per cent. Meanwhile, entries to media, film and TV studies GCSEs fell by 12 per cent and entries to music among GCSE students ...

GCSE courses in design and technology have disappeared from nearly half of schools amid pressure to succeed in core compulsory subjects. Jump to content. UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...

Designer Amy Congdon is using living materials like bone tissue and bacteria to grow new products in this design and technology resource for Key Stage 3, 4 and GCSE.

In areas which most obviously require practical assessments - art, design and technology, home economics, music and PE - it will continue but with "stronger safeguards". Most changes will affect ...

Alison Hardy consults for the Design and Technology Association. There has been a worrying decline in recent years in the number of teenagers opting to take design and technology (D&T) at GCSE ...

This clip will be relevant for teaching Food Technology and Modern Studies at GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This topic appears in OCR, Edexcel, AQA, WJEC KS4/GCSE in England and ...

But coursework will continue in art, music, design and technology, PE and home economics. The details followed an announcement last week from Education Secretary Alan Johnson that coursework would ...

Latest statistics released alongside GCSE results day have revealed that 26,800 fewer students took up art, design and technology subjects in 2017 compared to last year. The results are published ...

One of this year’s GCSE Design and Technology briefs was already centred around sustainability. Across the board, ... Of course science and technology are essential in the fight against climate change ...

If approved the new GCSE content will be introduced in September 2017 and follows a first draft of content which was unveiled in 2014.In the draft, the subject had moved from its craft-based roots ...

GCSE students will face tighter controls on coursework and harder exam questions to stop widespread cheating, watchdogs said yesterday. Instead of writing up coursework at home, pupils will ...