There is a history of languages being graded harshly.
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The proposed MBacc needs to avoid perpetuating the academic hierarchy it intends to address.
The number of students achieving GCSEs in technical and creative subjects along with religious education has declined yet again.
A focus on core subjects for 16-year-olds should not exclude arts, music or drama.
Art has been sidelined and is in danger of only becoming a subject for the privileged.
There has been a steady decline in students taking D&T.
The proportion of A* grades has remained the same as 2014 at 8.2%.
After being in decline for a decade, a new policy could kick-start language learning.
From September, all children will have to study five core academic subjects at GCSE. But the CBI thinks the exams should be phased out.
The shortage of foreign language skills in the UK is now a permanent preoccupation, with some sources placing the estimated cost of the deficit as high as £48 billion a year. Britons are now seen as a…
Teenagers across England are waiting nervously for their GCSE, AS and A Level results. Now new figures have shown more of them are choosing to take more “academic” subjects, such as the humanities, languages…
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