A group of schools has been criticised for entering hundreds of English-speaking teenagers into a GCSE exam aimed at pupils who moved here from abroad. Ofsted revealed one of the schools – Harris ...

Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language for the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is considered optional—and not ...

Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language to GCSE level is considered optional rather than a core subject, research suggests. The ...

Pupils who studied the new GCSE would learn how to use BSL in work, social and academic settings, the Department for Education said (Gareth Fuller/PA) A British Sign Language GCSE is one step closer ...

Olga Gomez-Cash is a member of the Pearson/Edexcel MFL GCSE and AS/A level External Stakeholder Advisory Groups and is a member of the OCR MFL Consultative Forum. She has received funding from the ...

Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language to GCSE is considered optional – and not necessarily even encouraged – new research shows.

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