Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 76076

Media: Education

Tabled: 9 September 2025

Answered: 3 October 2025

Question

Lisa Smart

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to include media literacy within the English curriculum as part of the ongoing curriculum review.

Answer

Georgia Gould

The current English language GCSE curriculum equips students with critical reading and comprehension skills. They learn to identify and interpret themes in diverse texts, read for various purposes, draw inferences, support viewpoints with evidence and ide...

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