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<p>Government action has resulted in GCSEs and A levels in a range of community languages
being continued, to ensure young people can carry on studying a diverse range of foreign
languages.</p><p> </p><p>This follows a Government commitment in 2015 to protect a
number of language GCSEs and A levels after the exam boards announced that from 2017
they would be withdrawing several courses.</p><p> </p><p>Since then the Government
has worked with Ofqual and the exam boards and we have been successful in securing
most of the less-taught languages at GCSE and A level for future years. In addition
to Chinese, Italian and Russian, the languages now secure are Arabic, Bengali, Biblical
Hebrew, Modern Greek, Gujarati, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Panjabi, Polish, Portuguese,
Turkish and Urdu.</p>
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