A top private boys' school in Manchester is dropping GCSEs because the courses are not challenging enough.
Manchester Grammar School (MGS) will follow the International GCSE (IGCSE) from September, it has revealed.
In 2005 the school axed GSCE maths in favour of the IGCSE equivalent, which is predominately exam based.
The school currently offers the IGCSE in biology, chemistry and physics.
English language, English literature, history, religious studies, modern foreign languages, Latin and music will be available to study at the start of the next academic year
the changes were "cumbersome and time-consuming" and would "restrict the ability of schools like MGS to provide inspirational teaching for the most able pupils".
"It is aimed at international students and therefore does not major on English cultural or historical concepts and achievements.
"It does not include compulsory study of Shakespeare or any other classic author - which are protected in the national curriculum. Nor does the maths IGCSE have a basic non-calculator test."
"Most GCSEs contain coursework and in the new specifications this will be replaced by controlled assessment. IGCSEs contain neither coursework nor controlled assessment.
"Increasingly only children from richer families can take high quality exams.
Repeatedly asked the government to change the rules so that all children can take high quality international exams."
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