But according to the NUT survey, teachers say the push towards the suite of more traditional, academic subjects has led to fewer schools offering subjects such as music, drama or design and technology, and giving pupils fewer options.
A Department for Education spokeswoman said: "We've always been clear that pupils should take the qualifications that are right for them and the English Baccalaureate will not prevent any school from offering subjects that their pupils want to study.
Your first step towards studying in the Netherlands is to check which universities are offering subjects taught in English: a good place to begin your search is studyinholland.nl, which also includes information about the structure of the Dutch higher education system as well as an online database, Study Finder, of courses that are taught in English.
Intertemporal choices were elicited by offering subjects decisions between small rewards available sooner vs. large rewards available later.
In addition, we did not control for study methodology with some studies offering subjects more encouragement and assistance which may have also impacted adherence rates.
"The E Bacc is not compulsory - it leaves plenty of room for further study and categorically does not stop schools offering subjects outside it.
For example, in a classic study, it was found that offering subjects a free choice between one of two bets (of almost identical expected value around $4 but with different maximum payoffs and different maximum penalties) led to subjects revealing a preference for one of the two bets.
With the HEA no longer offering subject-specific support, an obvious alternative are the learned societies, who have always played an important role in providing networking opportunities for academics.
It was tried to avoid this by offering subjects rest periods between successive conditions, yet as fatigue was not measured during the experiments it was impossible to determine whether or not rest was sufficient.
The number of institutions offering a subject affects the influence of that subject in the institutional table.
