HC Deb 21 July 1989 vol 157 cc371-2W
Mr. Cash

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what arrangements will be made to enable a child, whether at a state or non-maintained school, to obtain a recognised qualification by examination where he

column 346, on Soviet studies, he will provide a breakdown of the figures based on (a) home students and (b) overseas students.

Mr. Jackson

The further information requested is shown in the table.

or she, as a matter of deeply held religious conviction, declines to use a computer, if GCSE examination questions are so set as to be answerable only by computer.

Mrs. Rumbold

The administration of the GCSE is the responsibility of the independent GCSE examining groups. It is open to schools or individual parents to discuss the special needs of particular pupils with the groups.