More teenagers may be taking GCSE Spanish because Spain is a popular holiday destination and the language is more relatable, it has been suggested. It may also be seen as easier for some students to ...

Get skilled up for your GCSE English Language exam with this BBC Bitesize and Sounds podcast series, created in collaboration with the National Theatre. Join hosts Carl Anka (journalist) and Jean ...

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.

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 ...

Undergraduates help secondary schools to reverse the decline in exam entries It is a question arguably more fiendish than mastering the French subjunctive or the thousands of characters in Mandarin.

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 ...

Back to the books. Spanish lesson via Eiko Tsuchiya/www.shutterstock.com The government’s decision that all pupils will now have to study a language GCSE as part of the English Baccalureate (EBacc) ...

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 ...