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The Education System
1. Schools and pupils
2. Teachers
3. Teacher trainees
4. GCSE entries
5. A-level entries•
6. AS-level entries
7. GNVQ Foundation
8. GNVQ Intermediate
9. GNVQ Advanced
10.ICT Survey England
11.Use and benefit of ICT England
12.Expenditure on ICT in English schools

EPC School Book Survey
13.Spending summary
14.Total spending(estimated)
15.Primary: spending by subject
16.Primary: estimated total by subject
17.Secondary: spending by subject
18.Secondary: estimated total by subject

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2002 2003 2004



UK School-Market Dataset

Table 5: A Level/A2 entries (all UK Candidates)
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Subject
1995
2000
2003
2004
% change
1995-2004
% change
2003-2004
% of total
2004
Art and Design subjects
33,907
37,609
38,314
38,989
15.0%
1.8%
5.1%
Biology
51,848
54,814
51,716
52,564
0.8%
1.1%
6.8%
Business Studies
26,837
38,226
33,133
32,253
20.2%
-2.7%
4.2%
Chemistry
42,280
40,856
36,110
37,254
-11.9%
3.2%
4.9%
Classical subjects
7,773
5,654
5,900
5,789
-25.5%
-1.9%
0.8%
Communication Studies
5,072
3,797
2,356
2,310
-54.5%
-2.0%
0.3%
Computing
10,185
19,099
28,175
24,594
141.5%
-12.7%
3.2%
Economics
26,597
17,113
17,816
17,762
-33.2%
-0.3%
2.3%
English
86,399
86,428
78,746
81,649
-5.5%
3.7%
10.7%
Expressive Arts
8,984
11,401
17,221
17,831
98.5%
3.5%
2.3%
French
27,497
18,221
15,531
15,149
-44.9%
-2.5%
2.0%
General Studies
57,468
89,805
58,430
58,316
1.5%
-0.2%
7.6%
Geography
43,436
37,112
35,749
34,215
-21.2%
-4.3%
4.5%
German
10,624
8,692
6,950
6,390
-39.9%
-8.1%
0.8%
History
43,479
38,779
42,018
43,790
0.7%
4.2%
5.7%
Home Economics
3,025
2,019
1,240
1,172
-61.3%
-5.5%
0.2%
Law
12,092
10,325
12,381
13,929
15.2%
12.5%
1.8%
Mathematics
62,195
67,036
55,917
58,508
-5.9%
4.6%
7.6%
Media/Film/TV Studies
7,056
15,269
24,179
26,894
281.2%
11.2%
3.5%
Music
6,006
6,815
8,826
9,280
54.5%
5.1%
1.2%
Other Modern Languages
4,879
5,296
5,918
6,309
29.3%
6.6%
0.8%
Physics
34,767
32,059
30,583
28,698
-17.5%
-6.2%
3.7%
Political Studies
11,858
9,172
9,819
10,213
-13.9%
4.0%
1.3%
Psychology
22,111
30,187
41,949
46,933
112.3%
11.9%
6.1%
Religious Studies
8,924
9,178
12,671
14,418
61.6%
13.8%
1.9%
Science subjects
5,707
4,654
4,751
4,444
-22.1%
-6.5%
0.6%
Sociology
30,380
23,901
24,396
25,571
-15.8%
4.8%
3.3%
Spanish
4,822
5,632
5,781
5,966
23.7%
3.2%
0.8%
Sport/PE Studies
7,686
16,529
19,231
19,589
154.9%
1.9%
2.6%
Technology subjects
10,747
14,650
17,091
17,261
60.6%
1.0%
2.3%
Welsh
892
1,020
852
919
3.0%
7.9%
0.1%
All Other Subjects
10,459
10,461
6,787
7,588
-27.5%
11.8%
1.0%
TOTAL
725,992
771,809
750,537
766,247
5.5%
2.1%
100%

Source: Information supplied by the Joint Council for General Qualifications