kenyancowgirl wrote:
littlejohn wrote:
Hi all,
My DD is currently choosing her option. She has been advised by school that to get into a Russell group university to study law she needs to do a language at GCSE. Her current choices are History, Geography, Drama and Economics alongside triple science and Eng Lit and Lang. She is also doing RS a year early. She really does not enjoy languages so can anyone tell me if this info from school is correct? Thanks.
Nope - not as far as I can think! Assumably she is also doing Maths GCSE? Many unis do have GCSE English Language and Maths at a certain grade as part of their general entry requirements.
For eg look at this:
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ ... quirementsScroll down for full entry requirements - apart from UCL (which requires it for all undergrad degrees), I'm not sure any require language at GCSE - I checked Durham and they didn't either....
Lack of Maths would certainly be a much greater problem...
Things may change, of course, but as others have said, only UCL requires some kind of foreign language study, but lack of it to GCSE level still isn't a barrier to entry, assuming all other requirements are met, as you just have to take an extra course once at the university.
If the school is so keen on students going to a particular restricted group of universities and genuinely believes that those universities' requirements are other than the reality, perhaps it should just make a language other than English at GCSE a requirement for all and have done with?