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11 April 2026

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GCSE Results 2021: Spanish

Here are the trends in the latest Spanish GCSE results for summer 2021. The proportion of grade 9 results achieved by students in the language, equivalent to a high A* under the old GCSE system, rose to 9.6 per cent, compared to 8.4 per cent in 2020 and 5.7 per cent in 2019. You can […]

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 chemistry only slowly inched up. This year the proportion of 16-year-old pupils in England earning a grade 7 or above at GCSE jumped to 30 per cent – compared with 27.5 per cent last year. But […]

A-level results 2021: Spanish

Here are the trends in Spanish A-level for 2021. There was a huge leap in the proportion of A* grades which resulted in a drop for all other grades apart from U.

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 has said. The all-party parliamentary group for modern languages has urged the Department for Education to think again after being “inundated with messages of concern” from across the education sector. In March, the government began consulting […]

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 finds the subjects are more severely marked than others. Speaking at Ofqual’s summer symposium in London today, Richard Garrett, director of policy and strategic relationships, explained that the regulator is exploring ‘inter-subject comparability’, or whether it […]

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, a new report has revealed. In fact, 34.5 per cent of state schools are not teaching modern foreign languages (MFL) to entire groups of students at that level, up from 29 per cent in 2017 and […]