Sunak outlines maths to 18 ‘ambition’... but not before 2025
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Labour says ‘reheated’ pledge is ‘empty without more maths teachers’.
By Freddie Whittaker
Rishi Sunak will set an ‘ambition’ for all school pupils to study ‘some form of maths’ until the age of 18.
But the prime minister will only commit to starting work to introduce the new policy in this Parliament.
He will acknowledge in a speech tomorrow that the proposed reform would not be achieved during the course of this Parliament – which will come to an end in 2024 at the latest.
The government also ‘does not envisage’ making maths A-Level compulsory for all students, Downing Street has said.
Ministers are ‘exploring existing routes’, such as the core maths qualification and T-levels, as well as ‘more innovative’ choices, Number 10 said this evening.
But there are no details about how more maths teachers would be recruited. Government has failed to recruit the required number of maths teachers since at least 2012, Labour analysis shows.
‘Empty pledge without more maths teachers’
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