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Economics is now one of the fastest-growing A Level subjects
Jim Riley
14th August 2008
Great news for Economics teachers from today’s A Level statistics. The numbers show what departments have been telling us for over a year - that A Level Economics is on the up…
The candidate statistics for the Summer 2008 sittings show that A Level Economics numbers are climbing strongly.
There were 24,449 AS candidates, a 10.6% increase in 2007.
There were 18,540 A2 candidates, a 6.3% increase on 2007, and the first time that A2 numbers had grown for five years.
Overall Economics candidate numbers were up 8.7%.
Across all subjects, A2 entries were up 2.7% and AS entries up 1.2%
Anecdotally, we hear of significant increases in AS sets for 2008/09 which suggests that the summer 2009 numbers might also show healthy growth.