NEU comments on the EPI report on Extra-Curricular Activities

Commenting on an Education Policy Institute report examining participation in sports and other hobbies at secondary school, which found that vulnerable students and those attending state-maintained schools are less likely to benefit, Daniel Kebede, General Secretary of the National Education Union, said:    

“We welcome the EPI's findings. They show, once again, that there is a strong link between a broad experience of education and positive student outcomes. This is a lesson that we hope that the government will learn, and move away from its focus on a narrow range of curriculum subjects. There is much to be learned from the work of schools which have improved their extra-curricular offer but there is no getting round the fact that broadening the school experience requires adequate funding and higher levels of staffing. This is a message that the next government will have to attend to.”