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Decision to make on GCSE exam reform

Isle of Man Today | Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:58:39 -0700

Education chiefs in the Isle of Man have about 12 months to decide whether they will follow UK Education Secretary Michael Gove's proposals to replace GCSEs with a new qualification. In England, a plan emerging from the Department for Education is to ...

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Signing should be classed as foreign language for GCSE

BBC News | Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:08:01 -0700

Ministers are facing calls to make British Sign Language count as a modern foreign language at GCSE level. A modern language is defined in England as one that can be spoken or written - so BSL cannot qualify at the moment. But deaf awareness charity ...

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Record number of students in Wales taking RE at GCSE

WalesOnline | Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:03:11 -0700

Education watchdog Estyn said the number of pupils achieving high-level A*-C grades for the full GCSE in religious education (RE) is well above the average for other subjects. And the proportion of pupils obtaining an A* in both the full and short ...

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MPs criticise Ofqual over GCSE English debacle

The Guardian | Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:05:23 -0700

The report by the cross-party committee comes as the education secretary, Michael Gove, prepares to reveal his latest set of GCSE reforms. Last week a leak from Ofqual suggested that assessed coursework would be scrapped in all but one of the new core ...

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