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 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 ...

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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.

The number of teenagers taking a GCSE language is so low that it is threatening the Government’s flagship English baccalaureate qualification, an education expert has warned. The “Ebacc” recognises ...