UK: School languages crisis as pupils reject subject

[Francis Hult]

Times Online

 

School languages crisis as pupils reject subject

 

The number of bright students taking a modern language at GCSE has fallen to a record low, it was claimed today. 

 

It has plummeted since the Government stopped making it compulsory for pupils to study a language beyond the age of 14. 

 

Only 75 per cent of the highest achieving third of teenagers take a modern language at GCSE, compared with 94 per cent in 1984. 

 

It is thought that although primary school pupils are being introduced to a foreign language many already in secondary school will not have had that exposure and are being turned off by the subject. 

 

Full story:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6608863.ece

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