Explanatory note

The Education (National Curriculum) (Foundation Subjects at Key Stage 4) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/1814) amends section 3 of the Education Reform Act 1988 in relation to England by providing that technology and a modern foreign language cease to be foundation subjects in relation to the fourth key stage until 1st August 1996. That Order also amends section 3 in relation to Wales so that technology and a modern foreign language are no longer foundation subjects in relation to the fourth key stage. Technology is already a foundation subject, in relation to England and Wales, and remains so for pupils who entered the first year of the fourth key stage in 1993.

This Order amends the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Modern Foreign Languages) Order 1991 and the Education (National Curriculum) (Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study in Technology) Order 1991 and the Documents to which they respectively give effect in consequence of the amendments referred to above to section 3 of the Education Reform Act 1988.