The greater breadth of the IB is particularly important in encouraging pupils to sustain their study of modern foreign languages, maths or science post-16".
Next year's changes to the league tables will see the current headline measure replaced with more sophisticated measures of progress and attainment across eight subjects, with five of the eight to be the EBacc core of English, maths, sciences, languages, and history or geography.
They spoke to universities about their minimum requirements and discovered that as long as students had a base of traditional qualifications in core subjects (English language, maths, sciences and languages), new approaches were encouraged.
So I would always advise a facilitating subject, such as a language, English, maths or a science, as that broadens your degree options.
In addition, the report found that the subject is being squeezed out of the curriculum by the Government's education reforms – partly because of its exclusion from Education Secretary Michael Gove's English Baccalaureate school league table measure, which ranks schools on their performance in English, maths, science, languages and the humanities (history or geography).
The rules for obtaining a higher education entrance certificate via vocational training are very heterogeneous across federal states, but in general students can choose to take extra lessons and exams in maths and languages to obtain a full or restricted entrance certificate.
Since 2011, pupils who achieve a GCSE grade C or better in English, maths, a language, history or geography and two sciences get one.
Oxford comes top for medicine, maths, modern languages, law, politics, economics and English.
Under this system, teenagers are awarded a certificate for achievements in English, maths, science, languages and a humanities subject.
