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Hardest GCSEs
Languages are the hardest GCSEs, research finds
By Richard Garner, Education Editor
Published: 12 March 2007
GCSEs in languages are much harder than any other subject, research has confirmed. As a result, heads are less likely to enter pupils for French, German or Spanish for fear of doing badly in exam league tables, it was claimed.
The research, by Robert Coe, Head of Secondary Projects at Durham University, was revealed at the Annual Conference of the Association of School and College Leaders.
It emerges as the Government is about to publish the results ofits inquiry into modern foreign languages - set up after the number of pupils taking languages at GCSE plummeted from 80 per cent to just over 50 per cent. Lord Dearing, appointed by the Education Secretary
Alan Johnson to head the inquiry, is expected to recommend that the marking of language exams be brought into line with other GCSE subjects, making it easier for pupils to get a top-grade pass.
At present, Ministers are planning to give every child the right to learn a language from the age of seven by the end of the decade.
Lord Dearing wants to go further than that and make languages a standard part of the national curriculum.
But he is unlikely to demand the Government overturns its decision to make languages voluntary from 14, even though Mr Johnson acknowledged last week the Government had got its languages policy "dramatically wrong".
Ratings
* 10 HARDEST GCSEs
1. Latin
2. German
3. Spanish
4. French
5. Statistics
6. Vocational engineering
7. Chemistry
8. Physics
9. Biology
10. IT
education.independent.co.uk
By Richard Garner, Education Editor
Published: 12 March 2007
GCSEs in languages are much harder than any other subject, research has confirmed. As a result, heads are less likely to enter pupils for French, German or Spanish for fear of doing badly in exam league tables, it was claimed.
The research, by Robert Coe, Head of Secondary Projects at Durham University, was revealed at the Annual Conference of the Association of School and College Leaders.
It emerges as the Government is about to publish the results ofits inquiry into modern foreign languages - set up after the number of pupils taking languages at GCSE plummeted from 80 per cent to just over 50 per cent. Lord Dearing, appointed by the Education Secretary
Alan Johnson to head the inquiry, is expected to recommend that the marking of language exams be brought into line with other GCSE subjects, making it easier for pupils to get a top-grade pass.
At present, Ministers are planning to give every child the right to learn a language from the age of seven by the end of the decade.
Lord Dearing wants to go further than that and make languages a standard part of the national curriculum.
But he is unlikely to demand the Government overturns its decision to make languages voluntary from 14, even though Mr Johnson acknowledged last week the Government had got its languages policy "dramatically wrong".
Ratings
* 10 HARDEST GCSEs
1. Latin
2. German
3. Spanish
4. French
5. Statistics
6. Vocational engineering
7. Chemistry
8. Physics
9. Biology
10. IT
education.independent.co.uk