According to Dr John Dunford, of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), one factor driving the increase in pupils studying the sciences separately, is that schools seeking to specialise in science need to offer subjects in this way.
The Recording Industry Association of Japan had pushed for the move, suggesting that illegal media downloads outnumbered legal ones by about a factor of 10.
But in October Trevor Brooking, the association's director of football development, said that availability and suitability and not necessarily nationality would be a factor in who replaces Italian Capello.