The report calls the issue both "serious and urgent" and urges the government to use the ongoing curriculumreformto produce an "extended" version for students with the potential to study the subject at A-level.
"We are carrying out a root and branch reform of the National Curriculumto set out the essential knowledge that children need, while leaving schools free to decide how to teach it, " he said.
Setting out his schools White Paper to MPs on 24 November 2010, Mr Gove said plans toreform teacher training, boost discipline in schools and rewrite the National Curriculum would "provide the opportunity to become the world's leading education nation".
New secondary school curriculum options, including junior apprenticeships for 14 to 16 year-olds, are giving pupils more choice to meet their aspirations, and we will take curriculumreform further.