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    English exam board doubles choice of books by writers of colour

    Sep 16, 2021 3 minutes

    Pupils taking GCSE and A-level English literature will be able to study more books by writers of colour, after one of the UK’s leading examination boards announced a raft of new texts aimed at increasing diversity in the curriculum.

    The new works, which will include the 2019 Booker prize-winning novel Girl, Woman, Other by , will mean that 28% of texts available for study for OCR’s GCSE and A-level courses from next September are by writers of colour – the majority of them women – up from 13%

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