Languages: GCSE

(asked on 21st July 2015) - View Source
Questioner
Tulip Siddiq Portrait
Tulip Siddiq
(Labour - Hampstead and Kilburn)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of pupils entered for GCSEs in (a) Gujarati, (b) modern Hebrew, (c) Bengali and (d) Mandarin Chinese in each year since 2009.

Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 9th September 2015

The requested information is provided in the table below. It is not possible to identify pupils entered for Mandarin Chinese from the Department for Education’s data. The department does hold information on the number of entries into GCSE Chinese which includes Mandarin Chinese and other Chinese subjects. The number of pupils entered for GCSEs in Chinese is also published in the GCSE statistical first release.[1]

GCSE entries in selected modern foreign languages

Year[2]

Gujarati

Modern Hebrew

Bengali[3]

Chinese[4]

2008/09

873

421

1,282

2,440

2009/10

708

431

1,126

2,542

2010/11

676

406

995

2,480

2011/12

663

440

961

2,307

2012/13

590

372

1,002

2,341

2013/14

591

500

1,025

2,832

[1] www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2013-to-2014 (Subject time series table)

[2] Data for all years is final

[3] Includes Bengali (Any Other),Bengali (Chittagong/Noakhali) and Bengali (Sylheti)

[4] Includes Chinese (Any Other),Chinese (Cantonese),Chinese (Hokkien/Fujianese),Chinese (Hakka) and Chinese (Mandarin/Putonghua)

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