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Substantial effects of this new curriculum were noted for student retention in the education system and it has also impacted upon students’ choices regarding completion of courses and choice of subjects. First examinations for Curriculum 2000 subjects were introduced in 2001 for the one year AS courses and in summer 2002 for the two year A level courses. A questionnaire study was conducted in September 2002 to investigate how students who had completed their AS examinations decided whether to continue studying a particular subject to A level. Media coverage of concerns regarding the standards of the summer 2002 A level examinations coincided with the questionnaire being completed by the students, making the responses regarding students’ attitudes to the media coverage of examination results very interesting. This paper discusses the impact of Curriculum 2000 upon students’ choices of study and students’ accounts of their choices, as well as their attitudes to the examinations and the media.  \nIntroduction  \nSince the introduction of A level examinations in 1951, they have remained the main university entrance examination in the UK (UCAS, 2002) . Over the years, the content, range and style of the examinations has changed a great deal, but The Dearing Report (1996) proposed fairly radical changes to the structure of the examinations, that were brought in for first teaching in autumn 2000 and have become known as Curriculum 2000. With the new structure, students could take courses for one year and sit three modules for an AS examination and, if they chose to continue studying the subject in the second year, they could sit a further three A2 module examinations and, with the six modules aggregated, gain an A level qualification. Alongside the new A levels, Vocational Certificate of Education (VCE) examinations were introduced, which were intended to have equal status with the A level, but had different assessment styles and were largely in different, applied subject areas, such as Health and Social Care. Primarily, the objectives of Curriculum 2000 were  \n• to increase the breadth of students’ study between academic and vocational style assessments,  \n• to encourage students to study the key skills of literacy, numeracy and ICT 1 and  \n• to increase student participation rates after compulsory schooling, which ends at age 16. With examinations available after a year, the new curriculum was designed to be more attractive to students who might be put off by the prospect of two year courses and students were encouraged to study four subjects in the first year, specialising to three in the second year. Hodgson and Spours (2003) characterise the reforms as involving voluntarism, meaning that there was no requirement upon students or educational establishments to implement the reforms in a manner that would meet the objectives.  \nStudent choice of study in Curriculum 2000  \nJo-Anne Baird, Kelly Ebner & Anne Pinot de Moira  \n1 As key skills are not analysed further in this paper, readers interested in the uptake of key skills as part of Curriculum 2000 could consult the UCAS surveys (eg 62.5% students were working towards at least one key skill qualification in 2001: UCAS/QCA, 2001) .  \n[www.cerp.org.uk](www.cerp.org.uk)  \nCopyright © 2014 AQA Education and its licensors. All rights reserved. 1  \nAQA Education (AQA) is a registered charity (number 1073334) and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (number 3644723) . Our registered address is AQA, Devas Street, Manchester M15 6EX.  \nFrom the foregoing, it is evident that the reforms were implemented in a short timescale. In the first year of the AS examinations (2001), the Secretary of State for Education and Skills announced a r","cbCaijLX4lSIFx2T","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijLX4lSIFx2T","pdf",1234358,16,"English","# Introduction\n# Student choice of study in Curriculum 2000","[{\"question\":\"What is Curriculum 2000 in the UK context?\",\"answer\":\"It is a new post-16 curriculum and assessment structure introduced in the UK from first teaching in 2000, reshaping AS and A level pathways.\"},{\"question\":\"When were the first examinations for Curriculum 2000 introduced?\",\"answer\":\"First examinations for Curriculum 2000 subjects were introduced in 2001 for the one-year AS courses and in summer 2002 for the two-year A level courses.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the study investigate students’ decisions after AS?\",\"answer\":\"A questionnaire study was conducted in September 2002 to examine how students who completed their AS examinations decided whether to continue a subject to A level.\"}]","Student choice of study in Curriculum 2000 | PDF"]