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 ...

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.

Back to the books. Spanish lesson via Eiko Tsuchiya/www.shutterstock.com The government’s decision that all pupils will now have to study a language GCSE as part of the English Baccalureate (EBacc) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language to GCSE level is ...