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Rob Clark
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Re: World English gcse

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Just to go back to the question of World Literature GCSE, I have an English degree and work as a writer and an editor, and in the past have been responsible for hiring and training junior writers and editor. I had never heard of this qualification so had to go and look it up; on that basis I would gently suggest that it isn't firmly established enough to warrant aiming for the GCSE as such.

If you have a DC who loves reading and would really like to expand their fictional horizons, why not give them some of the classics to read – Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Zola, Camus, Flaubert, Mann, Grass, Garcia Marquez, Allende, Kundera, Ishiguro, Murakami, Khaled Hosseini. No need for it to lead to a qualification :D

I did a brilliant university module on Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht and Strindberg, but not sure 15 is the age to start studying any of them tbh
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