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John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men has been removed from the GCSE curriculum (Picture: Alamy Stock Photo) The classic US novel Of Mice and Men has been removed from the GCSE syllabus after being ...

John Steinbeck’s classic novella Of Mice and Men will no longer be studied in Wales at GCSE level because of the book’s racial slurs. WJEC, the Cardiff-based Welsh exam board, said it has ...

The classic American novel Of Mice and Men will no longer be studied at GCSE in Wales from next September amid concerns about racism and the use of racial slurs. John Steinbeck's text, set in the ...