article_snippet: Creative subjects are being squeezed out of schools due to Government's new league table measure.
article_snippet: Failure to meet the target could leave schools at risk of takeover or even closure.
article_snippet: But the Design and Technology Association (DATA) has warned that schools are urging students to take further EBac subjects as 'optional subjects', leaving schools are urging students to take further EBac subjects as 'optional subjects' less time to pursue creative interests.
article_snippet: DATA chief executive, Richard Green, told the Times Educational Supplement: 'If a student is doing history then (schools) are advising a student is doing history then (schools) to take geography as well, and the same with sciences and languages. '
article_snippet: That then uses up the option categories, so you have all the other subjects competing for just one slot.'
article_snippet: The National Society for Education in Art and Design said The National Society for Education in Art and Design was also aware of creative subjects being affected.
highlights_snippet: Experts say students will have less time to pursue creative subjects .