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Lacking language teachers: NSW schools are missing out on the chance to study a continuous course of Asian languages due to the low numbers of language qualified teachers. <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Photo: Brendan Esposito</em></p>
</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.8em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.2em;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">NSW is short of more than 2500 teachers to provide students with a continuous course in Asian languages from kindergarten to year 12.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0.8em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.2em;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The Auditor-General Grant Hehir has reported on NSW's progress in the national Australia in the Asian Century policy introduced by the Gillard government.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0.8em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.2em;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The policy aims to provide all Australian students with the chance to study an Asian language throughout their school years by 2025.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0.8em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.2em;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">However, the audit released on Wednesday showed there are not enough qualified teachers to deliver the policy, which identifies Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean as priority languages.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0.8em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.2em;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">''The department advises the delivery of a face-to-face Asian language program to students, kindergarten to year 12, for two hours per week at a ratio of 250 students per teacher, would require approximately 3000 full-time equivalent teachers,'' the Auditor-General's report said. ''The department currently has 479 permanent qualified teachers of Asian languages.''</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0.8em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.2em;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Figures from the NSW Department of Education showed that of 726,870 public school students in kindergarten to year 12, just 71,343 were learning an Asian language in 2011.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0.8em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.2em;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Only 17 students studied Hindi for the HSC exams last year and none was taught at school. A total of 15,177 students in kindergarten to year 10 studied community-run language programs in 2011.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0.8em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.2em;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">''Under the National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools Program in NSW, 20 teachers qualified as teachers of an Asian language, and another 40 will graduate next year,'' a spokesman for the department said.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 0.8em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:1.2em;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The federal Department of Education last year said there were just 3000 teachers across the country teaching Asian languages in schools.</p>
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