Aberdeen: £1.5M to Teach Foreign Pu pils English

[Francis Hult]

Evening Express

 

£1.5M TO TEACH FOREIGN PUPILS ENGLISH

 

Up to £1.5 million may have to be spent by city education bosses to cope with an influx of non-English speakers.

A report to Aberdeen City Council has revealed that about 1,500 pupils out of about 22,000 children do not speak English as their first language.

Since the start of the current school year 509 foreign pupils have started in the city, 383 of them Polish.


St Machar, Torry and Harlaw academies have the highest numbers of foreign pupils.

The report to Friday's Policy and Strategy (education) committee suggests spending as much as £1,546,600 on the equivalent of 27 full-time employees, to add to the existing 14 staff in the English as an Additional Language department.



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