Russell Brand to be studied at English A-level from September

Plans originally caused controversy when announced last year
Richard Garner Author Biography
Education Editor
Wednesday 07 January 2015
Comedian Russell Brand and rapper Dizzee Rascal will be studied as part of the English A-level syllabus as from this September.
Plans to include evidence given by the comedian to a Commons select committee inquiring into drugs and an interview between the rap singer and Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman caused a stir when they were proposed by the exam board Oxford, Cambridge and Royal Society of Arts (OCR)as part of the new syllabus last year.
Now, though, they have been approved by exams regulator Ofqual amongst 37 new specifications for GCSEs and A-levels put forward by the exam board.
In the rapper’s interview on the night Barack Obama won the US presidency, Mr Rascal said: “I don’t think he could have done it without hip-hop.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/russell-brand-and-dizzee-rascal-to-be-studied-at-english-alevel-from-september-9963241.html