Natural history to become new GCSE

Natural history is becoming a GCSE subject, a reporter Lewis Denison explains.

He met Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson and pupils from Hammersmith Academy at the Natural History Museum as part of the announcement.

Biodiversity, conservation and human influences on the natural world among the topics of study in the new GCSE, the government said.

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