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GCSE: Humanities and Languages

Volume 508: debated on Wednesday 7 April 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many mainstream maintained secondary schools entered no pupils for a GCSE in (a) a modern foreign language, (b) history and (c) geography in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009. (321218)

[holding answer 9 March 2010]: The number of open maintained mainstream secondary schools that entered no pupils for GCSEs in the specified subjects is shown in the following table.

(i) 2007

(ii) 2008

(iii) 2009

(a) a modern foreign language

25

24

24

(b) history

59

59

53

(c) geography

83

95

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