Today’s GCSE results reveal that music has one of the highest increases in uptake, of any subject in 2025. More than 38,000 students took GCSE music in 2025, an increase of 6.1% compared to 2024. In ...

A Gary Glitter song has reportedly been listed as "related listening" for pupils studying GCSE music. The 1970s song 'I'm The Leader Of The Gang' was selected as secondary material for a piece of exam ...

Professional bodies have expressed ‘great concern’ following a sharp decline in the amount of GCSE students taking music as an exam option. Entries for GCSE Music have hit a record low, with the ...

Spanish is closing in on French while music and drama continue to decline. Computing is booming but music and drama continue to decline, according to this year’s GCSE results (Jordan Pettitt/PA) The ...

Songs by the Beatles are to be part of a GCSE exam for the first time. Fifty years after the Fab Four started recording Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, teenagers will be able to study the album ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber has called for arts subjects in schools to be taught free of charge, after it emerged pupils in Yorkshire are paying £5 a week to take GCSE music. Bingley Grammar School, in West ...

A secondary school in Yorkshire has come under fire for offering GCSE music at a charge of £5 a week. The move has been described as “shocking and deeply troubling” by the Incorporated Society of ...

Government complacency risks jeopardising the future of one of Britain's "economic powerhouses", it adds. The damning report from the Communications and Digital Committee urges ministers to commit to ...

Foreign languages have not been compulsory as a GCSE for almost two decades. During that time, their popularity has collapsed – and the trend has continued this year. GCSE French had 129,419 entries ...