Students will be able to gain a GCSE in a foreign language without speaking a word of it, exam chiefs revealed yesterday. New "short" GCSEs in French, Spanish or another language will simply test ...

Undergraduates help secondary schools to reverse the decline in exam entries It is a question arguably more fiendish than mastering the French subjunctive or the thousands of characters in Mandarin.

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 ...