Ofqual has published provisional GCSE and A Level entry statistics for 2021. Overall in England, both remain stable, with GCSE entries increasing by 0.4 per cent, and A Levels increasing by 3 per cent.
While some non-EBacc subjects have seen large decreases this year, Music entries across both GCSE and A Level have also remained consistent since 2020.
35,400 students have been entered for GCSE Music this summer, a 2 per cent increase on the 34,865 who took the qualification in June 2020. However, approximately 54,000 students took the qualification in 2008.
A Level entries have remained almost exactly the same as last year (5,035 in 2020 and 5,045 for 2021), but figures published by Ofqual in 2020 revealed that student numbers for Music had nearly halved in the previous decade.
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