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 ...

GCSE pupils taking English literature exams next year will not be required to study poetry, the exams regulator has announced. Ofqual said there was "significant concern" about teachers' ability to ...

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 ...

Pearson, one of the three leading exam boards in the UK, has warned that urgent reform at GSCE level is needed. If English (as a subject) is to survive at both A-Level and higher education, it needs ...

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 ...

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 ...