For most 12-year-olds, formal exams and qualifications still seem a lifetime away.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Language GCSE take-up is significantly lower in the less affluent state schools across England, a report has suggested. Around ...

The Department for Education is aiming for the new qualification to be taught in schools from September 2025. Pupils who studied the new GCSE would learn how to use BSL in work, social and academic ...

Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language for the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is considered optional—and not ...

Daniel Jillings said a GCSE in BSL would help both deaf and hearing students A deaf teenager who has been campaigning for a GCSE in British Sign Language (BSL) said it would be "a step towards ...