UK: Call for GCSE languages regrade

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


BBC News



Call for GCSE languages regrade



Head teachers and language experts say it is harder to get good grades in
modern languages than other GCSEs. They are calling for exam grading in
modern languages to be brought into line with other key subjects. The
Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) says the system is unfair
and is putting pupils off studying modern languages. England's exams
watchdog, QCA, has rejected calls for a re-grading, saying such action could
be harmful.

The Association of Language Learning (ALL) had suggested to a review of
languages by Lord Dearing that there should be adjustments to the grading of
GCSEs to redress what it said was the imbalance between languages and other
subjects.



Full story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7254744.stm


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Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone: (215) 898-7475
Fax: (215) 573-2138

Email: haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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