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| Title | News Article: Language Crisis Facing UK Schools |
| Body | From the GuardianUnlimited, http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1962813,00.html Language crisis facing UK schools Anushka Asthana, education correspondent Sunday December 3, 2006 Language teaching in England and Wales is in crisis. Fifty leading academics have written to The Observer this weekend to express alarm about the slump in the number of teenagers taking GCSEs in foreign languages. A letter signed by professors and heads of language departments from dozens of top universities, including Oxford, Cambridge and the London School of Economics (LSE), calls for the government to reverse its controversial policy allowing pupils to drop languages at 14. The move, that came into force two years ago, embedded the notion that 'languages do not matter, that English is enough', the letter says. To read the entire article, go to http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1962813,00.html . |
| Source | EducationGuardian |
| Inputdate | 2006-12-10 10:52:05 |
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