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GCSEs 2024: More generous grades for French, German and computer science

Ofqual said language changes will align grades with Spanish, while computer science results found to have been ‘more stringent’

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
A-level results 2022

A-level results 2022: Which subjects saw the biggest drop in top grades?

Top grades in some subjects are far closer to pre-Covid results than others, with the biggest upheaval still to...

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
A-level results 2022

A-level results 2022: French

Here are the trends in French A-level results for 2022

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
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GCSE results 2021: French

Here are the trends in the latest French GCSE results for summer 2021. The proportion of grade 9 results...

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
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GCSE results 2021: PE records biggest rise in top grades

Physical education recorded the largest rise in top GCSE grades, while grades 7 or above issued in maths and...

James Carr
James Carr
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A-level results: French

Here are the trends in A-level French for 2021. There was an increase of more than six percentage points...

James Carr
James Carr
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Delay ‘risky’ reforms to language GCSEs, MPs and peers tell DfE

The government should delay “risky and untested” reforms to modern foreign language GCSEs, a group of MPs and peers...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofqual mulls grading change for language and science A-levels

Ofqual is considering a change to the grading of A levels in modern languages and the sciences, if it...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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A third of state schools allow pupils to opt out of languages in year 9

Over a third of state schools now allow pupils to opt out of studying a language in year 9,...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson