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 ...

Education Secretary Alan Johnson has signalled an embarrassing U-turn over the downgrading of language learning in secondary schools. He admitted the Government was reconsidering its decision to allow ...

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 ...

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.