with Sarla Maheshwari
The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) will replace CSE, 0-level and 16-plus exams in 1988. The first GCSE courses will begin in September. In today's programme an educationist explains what GCSE is and how it compares with the outgoing system.
In Leicester the Rushey Mead Centre has a teaching scheme to help Asian women learn
English for special skills and special purposes.
Anita Aggarwal visits a class for expectant mothers and a sewing group and talks to the scheme's organiser Jean Brown.
Akhlaq Ahmed sings a song from the film Chahat. Producer YOUSUF AZIZ
Executive producer ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill