The group stated: 'English Language GCSE should be closer in content to the A-Level, bring back spoken language, and include multi-media and new media forms: journalism, games, non-fiction ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...

Pearson, one of the three leading exam boards in the UK, has warned that urgent reform at GSCE level is needed. If English (as a subject) is to survive at both A-Level and higher education, it ...

Key GCSE results at a glance: Pupils under-18 who failed to achieve a 4/C in English Language and Maths can resit in the autumn. Exam bosses put the slight dip in grades overall down to the ...

As part of the English Literature GCSE, students are given an extract ... how does Lady Macbeth use language to manipulate her husband in the play?" Students are then asked to write about how ...

But many employers expect you – even if you go on to do a degree in something else – to have a GCSE in English of 5 or above. Even home-grown students might have issues that mean that they might well ...