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Make Political Studies a Mandatory Subject for GCSEs.

Submitted on Friday 3rd October 2025

Rejected on Monday 3rd November 2025

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make Political Studies a Mandatory Subject for GCSEs.

Petition Details

Implement "Politics" as a subject that is mandatory, similar to Maths and English. With new voting laws, it is more important than ever that people truly understand the impact and meaning of politics and ideologies; only with an educated public can you benefit society.

Additional Information

Implement Political Studies from either Year 9 or Year 10 as a mandatory requirement, like PSHE; but it adopts a similar form to the A-Level standard that is currently present. It may have to focus more on UK politics since its engineered to GCSE students but frankly its unfair that you let 16 year olds vote without many of them having a shred of political understanding, it would also help the youth to actually get involved in politics instead of just being commentators.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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The following petition calls for a similar action:

Make Government & Politics a compulsory, core subject in schools
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/733942

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