Languages: Qualifications

(asked on 15th July 2015) - View Source
Questioner
Joan Ryan Portrait
Joan Ryan
(The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils were entered into (a) GCSE and (b) A-levels in (i) Turkish, (ii) modern Greek, (iii) Spanish, (iv) French and (v) German in the last five academic years.

Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 23rd July 2015

The requested information is provided in the table below. The information for Spanish, French and German is published in the ‘GCSE and equivalent results in England’[1] statistical first releases (SFRs) and the A level and other level 3 equivalents SFR[2] for the years[3] required:

Year

GCSE entries in selected modern foreign languages

Turkish

Modern Greek

Spanish

French

German

2009/10

1,116

357

58,230

160,598

65,822

2010/11

1,207

339

58,681

141,749

58,299

2011/12

1,277

308

63,345

135,547

54,793

2012/13

1,326

366

82,733

161,821

60,320

2013/14

1,535

466

87,554

160,953

58,521

Source: Key Stage 4 attainment data

Year

A-levels entries in selected modern foreign languages

Turkish

Modern Greek

Spanish

French

German

2009/10

308

90

6,564

12,324

5,055

2010/11

326

69

6,398

11,490

4,554

2011/12

342

71

6,197

10,871

4,208

2012/13

393

77

6,516

9,878

3,774

2013/14

407

98

6,617

9,078

3,716

Source: Key Stage 5 attainment data

[1] www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4

[2] www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-attainment-at-19-years

[3] Data for all years is final.

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