Consultation outcome

AS and A level subject content for modern foreign languages with smaller cohorts

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 1 December 2016
• Last updated: 3 March 2017 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Reformed AS and A level subject content - modern foreign languages (smaller cohorts): government response

Ref: DFE-00080-2017

PDF, 400 KB, 15 pages

Detail of outcome

Summary of the responses we received, along with the government’s response outlining the next steps.

Find out more about revised subject content for A levels.

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Original consultation

Summary

We'd like views on AS and A level subject content for modern foreign languages with smaller cohorts.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
midday on 1 December 2016 to 5pm on 18 January 2017

Consultation description

We’d like your views on AS and A level subject content covering the following languages: Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Greek, modern Hebrew, Japanese, Panjabi, Persian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish and Urdu.

New qualifications based on this content will be first taught in Autumn 2018.

The consultation focuses on:

• the requirement to apply 3 skills in combination (listening, reading and writing), responding to spoken and written sources on common subjects

• the proposed title of the content for this qualification: ‘modern foreign languages AS and A level (alternative content for languages with smaller cohorts)’

• any disproportionate impact, positive or negative, on specific students, in particular those with ‘relevant protected characteristics’

Published 1 December 2016
Last updated 3 March 2017 + show all updates

1. 3 March 2017

   Added government response.

2. 1 December 2016

   First published.