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A-level results: key takeaways for language learning

Exam-entry statistics in the summer tend to prompt debates about the future of language learning in the UK. These are often framed around languages being in crisis: fewer young people study languages than two decades ago, and concerns persist about the UK’s linguistic capacity in an interconnected world.

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British girl who died on Caribbean family holiday was ‘killed in boat explosion’

Tourists on board the boat have described blast that left two dozen people injured in Dominican Republic

The Independent UK

National Year of Reading should extend to a decade, inquiry says

The education committee also proposed a National Reading Guarantee, ensuring all children have frequent opportunities to enjoy reading

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Eco-literate children can be stewards of nature – here’s how to boost environmental education

Most of my ecology and evolution undergraduates have never held a pair of binoculars or looked at a bug through a magnifying glass. They don’t know how to use a key to identify a plant or insect, let alone why they should bother. They struggle to name common garden birds.…

The Conversation

Natural history GCSE to teach teenagers to plant wildflower-friendly gardens

Long-awaited course to examine human effects on natural world and explore everyday ways to aid biodiversity

The Guardian - UK

Only GCSE reform can free up space to teach financial literacy

Letter: Teaching practical maths skills is tricky in an overstuffed curriculum, writes Myles McGinley, in response to an article by Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

How Rastr Technologies Could Change the Business Future of Independent Comics Forever

Comic books are becoming progressively harder to break into for independent creators. One self-imposed problem for many indie creators is that they insist on doing business from an outdated and traditionalist mindset. Upcoming fintech companies with pioneering technologies, like Rastr Technologies, are proving that indie creators need to hyper-evolve the…

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GCSE students to receive help sheets until 2030

The Government announced its plans for the revised curriculum last year

The Independent UK

Spanish is clearly now the world’s coolest language. So why do we push children to learn French?

As Bad Bunny showed at the Super Bowl, español is the coming thing. No wonder it’s now the top GCSE language choice, says journalist Gary Nunn

The Guardian - UK

Hugh Grant says moving GCSE and A-Level exams online would be a ‘catastrophe’

The Notting Hill star said the move would be of great cost to children’s “education, mental health and safety”

The Independent UK

Exam board Pearson fined £2m for ‘serious’ breaches in standards

Ofqual issues fines over English proficiency test that some candidates sat at home, A-level Chinese and GCSE English

The Guardian - UK

Some GCSEs and A-levels in England could be taken on laptops by 2030, Ofqual says

Qualifications watchdog launches consultation amid complaints from pupils about writing fatigue in exams

The Guardian - UK

GCSE and A-Level exams could be set for major shake-up

GCSEs in smaller-entry subjects – and most A-level exams – could be moved onto screens by the end of the decade

The Independent UK

Several GCSE and A-level exams could be taken on screen from 2030

Exams regulator Ofqual is consulting on allowing exam boards to each submit proposals for two qualifications with onscreen elements.

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Students to face less time in exams in shake-up of GCSEs

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AI to be added to curriculum in English schools amid education shakeup

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has announced the biggest national curriculum review for a decade

The Guardian - UK

National curriculum review in England: 10 key recommendations

Proposals include shortening length of GCSE exams, a new diagnostic test in maths and English, and expanding RE

Evening Standard

Government announces plan to cut GCSE exam time by up to three hours

The final curriculum review report, commissioned by Labour last year, has recommended exam volume at key stage 4 be reduced by 10%.

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Curriculum review will support changing ‘inflexible approach’ to GCSE resits

Recommendations to help young people make better progress post-16 will be reflected in the coming skills white paper, Professor Becky Francis said.

Evening Standard

Disadvantaged students ‘more likely to miss out on GCSE foreign languages’

In 2004, language learning ceased to be compulsory at Key Stage 4, aged 14 to 16.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on GCSE resits: admitting the problem is just the first step

Editorial: The low pass rate in compulsory retakes is one of many challenges in 16-19 education

The Guardian - UK

Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big global player unless we speak more languages

For all the talk of addressing the problem, things have got worse. Which is criminal when there is so much we could do, says journalist Sophia Smith Galer

The Guardian - UK

A-levels and GCSEs need overhaul to keep pace with generative AI, experts say

Oral assessments, tightened security and faster marking could result as use of AI itself becomes core digital skill

The Guardian - UK

As Covid effect ebbs, GCSE results reveal broken legacy of Gove’s resit policy

Experts talk of ‘resit crisis’ as number accounts for nearly a quarter of maths and English entries, an all-time high

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Teen shepherd arrives with pet sheep at school to collect GCSE results

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