The speaking and listening element of GCSE English will no longer form part of the overall grade, under proposals from England's exams regulator Ofqual. The move follows concerns that over-generous ...

English Language GCSE should be scrapped to “end the misery” of a system which labels more than a third of 16-year-olds as failures, according to an inquiry set up by a headteachers’ union. The ...

A review found the current volume of GCSE exams is "excessive", with the final report recommending key stage 4 exams be cut by 10%.

Students will be able to gain a GCSE in a foreign language without speaking a word of it, exam chiefs revealed yesterday. New "short" GCSEs in French, Spanish or another language will simply test ...

Spanish has surpassed French as the most popular foreign language at GCSE level, new figures indicate. Provisional data for England reveals a 1.9 per cent decrease in French GCSE entries this summer, ...

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Immigrant children would be allowed to sit an easier English GCSE than native speakers under proposals being drawn up by Government exam chiefs. Up to 60,000 a year would take a new GCSE in "English ...

Teachers have been told GCSE English exams 'uphold whiteness' and they should be teaching students about white privilege, white fragility and the British Empire. The claim, which have since been ...