Lucy Powell says proposals to end widespread practice will be included in overhaul of England’s national curriculum Pushing GCSE subjects on younger pupils risks turning England’s secondary schools into “early exam factories”, the education secretary has said, warning that it is increasing diseng...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/nov/08/gcses-teaching-england-curriculum-education-secretary-lucy-powell)