This is according to the interim findings of the Forgotten Third commission, set up by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) to investigate English teaching within the UK school system. It found what it calls “strong emerging evidence ... that the compulsory re-sitting of GCSE English (and mathematics) is not working – and indeed is a significant waste of student potential and teachers’ resources”.
Some 187,000 pupils did not achieve a standard pass in both English and maths last year with disadvantaged pupils disproportionately affected.
The report says there is a “fundamental matter here of common dignity, and what perceived failure does for the self-worth of so many young people”.
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