'Just one in five pupils were entered for GCSE exams in traditional academic subjects during Labour’s last year in Government, new figures have revealed today.
In some areas, just three per cent of children were given the chance to study the core academic subjects of English, maths, two sciences, a language or history or geography.
The official figures reveal the extent to which hundreds of thousands of children were encouraged to drop academic subjects in favour of so-called softer options.
They show that in 13 years under Labour, the number of pupils entering these academic core exams fell dramatically from 50 per cent in 1997 to 22per cent in 2010.
Of those who were took these subjects, only 16.5 per cent in England achieved good grades of A* to C.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2081786/Figures-number-pupils-doing-GCSEs-traditional-subjects-fell-half-Labour.html#ixzz1iTOAHJDO
