Calls for more flexibility within the curriculum for teachers have also been voiced from teaching unions, in a bid to target students who need to develop better transferable skills for employment.
Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said: "The experience in the classroom of our members is that irrespective of achievement, students are turned off by the exam-culture dictated from on-high. To succeed in education, work and life, young people need to develop useful and transferable skills, which an over-packed curriculum focussed on passing tests, does not provide.
"We believe it is unacceptable for a generation of young people to be this poorly served. The government must decide, and decide quickly, what the 14 to 16 phase of education should look like and keep students’ needs, and the cultivation of a passion for learning, at the centre of all decisions."
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