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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
Exam results

GCSE Results 2021: Spanish

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

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
News

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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Pupils ‘expected to know’ up to 1,700 words under reforms to MFL GCSEs

Pupils will be “expected to know” up to 1,700 different words under proposed reforms to GCSE modern foreign language...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

GCSEs 2021: Teachers CAN use one-off tests for MFL speaking

Teachers will not be prevented from using “one-off assessment opportunities” to test pupils spoken language in GCSE modern foreign...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

6 interesting findings from the Language Trends 2019 report

Take-up of French and German languages has slumped, fewer schools are teaching languages at an early age, and Brexit...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

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
News

Urgent action needed to save MFL from ‘extinction’, claims expert

GCSE entries to modern foreign languages continued to fall this year, in a dropoff that could even see some...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson