EXAMINATION OF CLASSICS

Early day motion 1434, tabled 30 June 2004 by Michael Fallon (Conservative). Signed by 42 members.

That this House deplores the decision of the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA), the largest examination board, to drop Latin and Greek as an examined subject after 2006; regrets that this decision was taken without consulting schools, university classics departments or even its own subject advisory panel; notes that this will further narrow subject choice at GCSE and A-level; is concerned that this will leave the future of classics in the hands of a single examining body, OCR, and will thus especially disadvantage those state schools that prefer the AQA syllabus to that of OCR; and calls upon the AQA to reconsider.

Signatures by party: Labour 18, Conservative 12, Liberal Democrat 7, Labour/Co-operative 3, UUP 2.