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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://opendata.ljmu.ac.uk/id/document/2030 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://opendata.ljmu.ac.uk/id/document/2030 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf https://opendata.ljmu.ac.uk/id/document/2030 archive 7 disk0/00/00/02/78 2026-07-10 08:37:12 2026-07-10 08:37:12 2026-07-10 08:37:12 data_collection show 7 McLain Matt 0000-0002-8691-3155 Department for Education (DfE), England, UK GCSE Design and Technology Entries 1996 to 2025 school public Liverpool Institute for Research in Education (LIFE); GCSE; Design and Technology; D&T; Examination Entries; 39 Education; 390201 Education policy; 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy Depositing user's licence comment: This dataset records annual GCSE examination entries in Design and Technology (D&T) in England from 1996 to 2025, providing a thirty-year longitudinal record of subject participation. For each year the dataset gives total national GCSE cohort size, subject entry counts, and subject entries as a percentage of the cohort. Supplementary series cover Food Preparation and Nutrition (2018–2025) and Art and Design (2008–2025), enabling comparison with related creative subjects. D&T entries grew from approximately 159,000 in 1996 to a peak of approximately 416,000 in 2001 — equivalent to around 69% of the total GCSE cohort — before entering a prolonged and substantial decline. By 2025, entries had fallen to approximately 78,000, representing around 11% of the cohort: a reduction of more than 80% from the 2001 peak. Three broad phases are discernible in the data: relatively high participation across the late 1990s and early 2000s; accelerating decline from approximately 2005 to 2016; and continued decline at a lower level from 2017 onwards. Over the same period, Art and Design entries remained comparatively stable (2008–2025), and Food Preparation and Nutrition entries grew steadily from their first appearance in the data in 2018. Data were compiled from Ofqual Analytics (analytics.ofqual.gov.uk/apps/GCSE/Outcomes/) and gov.uk statistics, supplemented by a Freedom of Information request to the Department for Education for years predating the scope of current publicly available data. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). 2026-06-26 published 10.24377/LJMU.d.00000278 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) 39 3901 390201 Public data (gov.uk) and FOI request to the DfE English English 1996-08-15 2025-08-14 2026-06-26