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Shadow Education Minister Stephen Twigg praises government action, but he says it comes with all negative "

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English government (Ebacc), which rewards students who achieve good passes in a mixture of academic subjects at GCSE, has won the support of the education spokesman for the Labour Party.

Stephen Twigg, who was appointed Secretary of Education, the shadow last month, gave qualified praise for the measure, said he could reverse the decline in the study of child language.

Its passage is the last change in the position after Twigg support expressed in favor of free schools, if they raise standards and help reduce the gap between rich and poor. In an interview with The Guardian, said: "It has a clearly positive Ebacc: greater number of children involved in the language in 16 Face it, the government has done something there and I welcome it. "

However, Twigg said the Ebacc had "a whole series of negative" in terms of potential displacement of other subjects.

In 2003, the Labour government decided to make languages ??optional after 14 years, a change that was introduced from September 2004. Study the language has declined steadily since then. This year, there were 154,000 entries for GCSE French, compared to 300,000 in 2004.

high school English, introduced in the school rankings this year, recognizes students who have earned a C or better in English, mathematics, history or geography, science and language .

Twigg - who said he regretted having given to Spanish when I was 14 -. Said work had to use foreign languages ??in primary school hours before discarding the requirement that older children

"I think the mistake we made was to the contrary. I definitely make the 14 language options, but he should have done was to address the major languages ??and after making changes to the age of 14. You can not return to what is necessary ".

Twigg highlighted the "fundamental differences" between the coalition and Labor, including the approach to the creation of schools of the academy. Under Labour, the academies program focused on transforming schools struggle in poor neighborhoods. Michael Gove, the education secretary, said he wants schools to be the norm.

"Gove made a virtue of many schools became academies in the past year compared to the slower growth under Labour," said Twigg. "I turn around and say that, of course, this growth was slow because it has been carefully designed programs for school improvement. It was never ever about to academies, never put all our eggs in one basket.
"The message is that it can be part of school improvement if you are a private school, or you become an academy. I do not think the passion. I went to school who are doing a fantastic job fairly, but do not want to become academies. "

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