Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language to GCSE is considered optional – and not necessarily even encouraged – new research shows.

Spanish has surpassed French as the most popular foreign language at GCSE level, new figures indicate. Provisional data for England reveals a 1.9 per cent decrease in French GCSE entries this summer, ...

Here you can find CCEA past papers for GCSE English Language. Use the links below to download question papers and mark schemes (which contain indicative content and explain how marks are awarded). In ...

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