§ Baroness Haymanasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will discuss with the Chairman of the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority ways of formally assessing students studying GCSE subjects in the medium of a foreign language.
§ The Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment (Lord Henley)The arrangements established for the approval of GCSE syllabuses already allow for the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority (SCAA) to recommend to Ministers the exceptional approval of syllabuses where assessment is made through the medium of a foreign language. At least one such syllabus has been approved. It is a matter for the GCSE examining groups in the first instance to decide whether they wish to put forward for approval such syllabuses to SCAA.