One more option is fulfilled by a science, humanities or foreign language option or the choice of Visual Arts at SL or HL. In March 2013 prospective students were informed that the International Baccalaureate will no longer be offered due to lack of interest and applications from internal Year 11 students who wished to stay on the next year, and timetable and staffing constraints. The school now offers the English Baccalaureate (Ebacc) which is a nationwide GCSE achievement. It is not a certificated award but proves the student is well-educated and provides the student with a basis for A level study and will support an application to university. International links Five Ways Old Edwardians Notable alumni include: Richard Adams - Fair Trade pioneer Arun Arora - Anglican priest and former Director of Communications of the Church of England Kate Ashfield - actress Prof Michael Beesley CBE, Professor of Economics 1965–90 at the London Business School Peter Bennett, 1st Baron Bennett of Edgbaston OBE, Conservative MP for Birmingham Edgbaston 1940–53, and President of the British Productivity Council 1955-57 Jon Burgerman - artist Tom Butler - Bishop of Southwark Prof Sir David Cannadine - historian Sir Michael Checkland - Director General of the BBC 1987-92, Chairman of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) 1997-2001 Jodie Cook, entrepreneur John Copley, opera director Sir Guy Dain, Chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) 1942-48 Nigel Dakin - CMG, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands, career Diplomat and soldier. Oscar Deutsch - founder of Odeon Cinemas Keith Fielding - international Rugby Union and Rugby League player Geoffrey Filkin, Baron Filkin CBE, Chief Executive of Reading Borough Council 1988–91, former husband of Elizabeth Filkin Daniel Fox - Olympic field hockey player Anisa Haghdadi - social entrepreneur Charles Hare - tennis player - represented Great Britain in the 1937 Davis Cup Alex Holowczak - Arbiter at several chess Olympiads and World Junior Championships and head of England Junior Chess Martha Howe-Douglas - actress Geoffrey Jones - Professor at the Harvard Business School and business historian John Kenneally V.C. (born Leslie Robinson) Prof Michael Laughton, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London 1977–2000 Joe Lycett - comedian Prof Raymond Lyttleton FRS, Professor of Theoretical Astronomy at the University of Cambridge 1969–78, presenter in 1956 of the BBC's The Modern Universe (a precursor to The Sky at Night) Mazher Mahmood - The "Fake