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A level accountancy blacklisted

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7th Jan 2008
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Britain’s top universities are drawing up lists of A-level subjects which will not count for the purposes of undergraduate admission. In a clear move to favour traditional fields, the UK’s Ivy League has discounted a swathe of “soft” modern courses, accounting amongst them. Dance, home economics and travel and tourism are amongst the other disregarded disciplines.

Several universities have already published these lists on their websites, such as Cambridge (which has prohibited a total of 25 subjects) and the London School of Economics, which also looks down on A level law.

Wendy Piatt, director-general of the Russell Group, a collaboration of 20 UK universities, has stated that most leading institutions will follow suit. Some are believed to be covertly basing admission on such lists already. Such universities appear prepared to countenance one A-level in a prohibited subject, but two will effectively bar entry.

“For applicants offering GCE A-Levels, vocational subjects and those applied to arts, crafts and practical skills, or to areas of study drawing on several subjects, will normally only be considered if they are taken in combination with two traditional academic subjects at A-Level,” says the LSE website.

The news may stoke growing fears that secondary education institutions are not doing enough to educate their pupils about financial management. Both the ICAEW and the government have called for more schoolchildren to be taught about subjects such as accountancy.

“I would favour more education in financial management and in financial budgeting generally at school,” the prime minister told the Observer this Sunday. “I'd like to see financial literacy extended, particularly through schools and colleges.”

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