Revise for your GCSE English literature exam by listening to these podcasts from BBC Bitesize and Sounds. Join host Testament plus special guests to compare a range of selected poems, looking at ...

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Poetry has been dropped as a compulsory topic for GCSE students preparing to sit their exams after months out of school. Exams regulator Ofqual yesterday unveiled a slimmed-down English literature ...

A teacher may have banished flash cards and spider diagrams to the realms of the past with a 21st Century revision technique. English teacher Barrie McDermid has set up a website where pupils can ...

An exam board’s decision to make poetry compulsory for students taking GCSE English literature next summer has prompted anger among teachers. Ofqual announced last month that schools and colleges in ...

GCSE students who are allowed to drop subject areas for their English literature exams next summer risk becoming “culturally illiterate”, teachers have warned. Exam regulator Ofqual said on Tuesday ...

The Baghdad-born minister said: "Larkin and Owen are two of our finest poets. Removing their work from the curriculum is cultural vandalism. Their work must be passed on to future generations. As a ...