The 2024 GCSE results reveal that more young people in schools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are opting to study a language. French and Spanish remain the most popular languages, with ...

It used to be a secret code that I shared with my half-Romanian daughter. We could talk freely on the tube and people had no idea what we were saying. Not anymore. Romanian is now the second ...

Figures for GCSEs taken in 2023 show that entries for GCSEs in languages have increased slightly from last year. Despite this, the number of pupils taking a modern foreign language stands at less than ...

A campaign has been launched to make Romanian a GCSE option available to students, with campaigners saying census data supports their request. When Londoners were asked in the 2021 census what their ...

Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language to GCSE level is considered optional rather than a core subject, research suggests. The ...

Year 10 GCSE French students Kit, Jake, Hugo, Cali and Maisy encountered Chinese, Japanese, Tamil and Spanish when they did the mentoring project in Year 9 When Hugo signed up for a project to help ...

In 2004, language learning ceased to be compulsory at Key Stage 4, aged 14 to 16. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going on in the West Midlands. Did you ...