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Great News for Homeschoolers!

Many of us in the homeschooling community in the UK have been on tenterhooks after learning that the Government had ruled out iGCSEs in English Language as an accepted qualification to study free at FE colleges. This meant that homeschooled students in the near future were going to have to either do one of three things: find an exam centre that would not only offer GCSE exams to private candidates, but also provide a way for them to satisfy the moderated speaking/listening portion of English exams; or take GCSE English in the FE college at post-16; or take the iGCSE as per usual, but hope that it wasn't further eroded as a qualification at, say, university. So, I can't express my appreciation enough to our hard-working colleagues (and presumably, plenty of independent schools who also take iGCSEs) who have finally broken through the stalemate and received word that the Government has u-turned on this. Here is an extract from the ruling: We have decided, foll