Their schools focus on religious learning: even basic subjects such as maths and English get short shrift.
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He also said there was a serious problem in recruiting teachers in key subjects such as maths and physics.
As well as core subjects such as maths and languages, students can also do work experience and voluntary placements.
The Isle of Man branch of the ATL said the move will help to boost recruitment in specialist areas such as maths, English and science.
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The students at the JCB academy will focus on key areas including languages, maths and physics, as well as extra subjects, such as maths for engineering.
These comparisons draw upon tests that are taken every three or four years, in areas such as maths, science and literacy - and so present a picture lagging by several years.
He admits to a few concerns regarding his course choice, because it is so specific and may leave him with fewer options after university than a more general academic degree such as maths.
The tests, which have monitored school standards in core subjects such as maths, reading and science since 1969, also found considerable gaps between black and white pupils across the range of ages and subjects.
But the ideas that lie behind it focusing on basic subjects such as maths and reading and using regular testing to hold schools accountable have been widely tried at the state level since at least the mid-1990s.
"This is likely to have a hugely detrimental impact on children's education with teachers in key subjects such as maths, physics and IT who have highly marketable skills leaving teaching and graduates with these skills, and other sought-after skills, not going into teaching, " she said.
Pupils will specialise in engineering and science alongside other subjects such as English, maths, languages and business.
The latest version of the curriculum also includes "key skills" and "thinking skills" which are supposed to be taught across all subjects - such things as applying maths to everyday situations and working with others.
And students looking for places on sought-after courses such as medicine and veterinary science see advanced maths as a way to stand out.
The performance of Massachusetts was much more successful than the US average - and was at a level that would put it among top performing science and maths countries such as Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan.
At first sight, girls' rise to mathematical equality suggests they should be invading maths-heavy professions such as engineering and that if they are not, the implication might be that prejudice is keeping them out.
Some students already take GCSEs early, usually maths and maybe a language such as French.
The maths study examined the availability of resources at home - such as books - with pupils in South Korea, Norway, Sweden and the US being the best equipped.
In subjects such as English and history, the exams will test essay writing, while in maths and science there will be a greater focus on quantitative problem solving.
It argues that using performance measures, such as Ofsted inspections and comparing schools' value-added results in English and maths, there is "no correlation at all between spending and outcomes".
The activists who trooped to London's Connaught Rooms on a wet Saturday applauded the traditionalist elements of David Cameron's address, such as the return of competitive school sport and a ban on calculators in primary school maths tests.
The research suggests teacher trainees in arts subjects such as history and English were more likely to have good degrees than those training to teach maths or science.
There will be a new eight-subject measure of GCSEs, including English and maths, three subjects out of sciences, languages, history and geography and three other subjects, such as art, music or RE.
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