The amount of work needed to revamp GCSE examinations has led to Ofqual enforcing a 12-month delay on the government.
The exams regulator has written to education secretary Michael Gove insisting that it “cannot be confident that new, high-quality GCSEs in all subjects could be ready in good time for first teaching from 2015”.
Of the nine GCSEs earmarked for relaunch in September 2015, chief regulator Glenys Stacey told Mr Gove that they will concentrate on having new English language, English literature and mathematics GCSEs ready to go into schools next autumn for first teaching a year later.
The remaining six subjects – physics, biology, chemistry, combined sciences, history, geography – will now be developed for first teaching in 2016, alongside languages GCSE which had already been scheduled for 2016.
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