Language teaching 'lets down Scotland'

[Francis Hult]

Scotsman

 

Language teaching 'lets down Scotland'

 

Scottish schools are failing to teach major languages vital to the nation's economic future, it was claimed last night.

 

New figures last night revealed little or no teaching of most of the world's "big six" business languages - with Higher Spanish offered by just one in three secondaries.

Experts warned that Scottish firms were now losing their edge because they couldn't find staff able to talk to potential foreign customers in their own language.

 

The Scottish Government admitted yesterday that just seven schools taught Russian to Higher level and none could offer Arabic. Despite enthusiastic all-party support, the teaching of Chinese is very limited.

 

Full story:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Language-teaching-39lets-down-Scotland39.5319314.jp

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