UK: Cambridge drops language GCSE requirement

[Francis Hult]

Telegraph

 

Cambridge drops language GCSE requirement

 

Cambridge University has dropped its requirement for entrants to have a GCSE in a foreign language.

 

The decision will inevitably be seen as another indicator of falling standards in secondary education.

 

Until now students applying for places at Cambridge had to have qualifications to at least GCSE standard in English, a foreign language, maths or a scientific subject, and two other subjects.

 

The university says it has been forced to review its admission procedures because standards in language teaching in state schools have fallen so much that requiring a language GCSE has become tantamount to discriminating against state school pupils.

 

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