by Our News Desk

GOVERNMENT plans to force all teenagers to focus on “traditional academic subjects” ran into more trouble yesterday as school leaders gave them the cold shoulder.

Nearly nine in 10 members of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) surveyed said they disagreed with the Tory fixation on the English baccalaureate (EBacc), which requires schools to make all pupils study English, maths, science, a language and history or geography up to GCSE level.