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 ...

Irish remains the third most popular GCSE language for pupils in the north and is continuing to rise in popularity, data shows. The number of Irish GCSE pupils achieving tops marks for their exams is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language to GCSE level is ...

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.

Colleges in England are demanding a review of an "exceptional and unfair grade boundary increase" in an English language GCSE exam designed for resit students. They say an 11-mark increase of the ...

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 ...