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<h1>Language exam entries are falling, but pourquoi?</h1>
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<span class="gmail-date-display-single">17th August 2018 at 00:00</span> </div>
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‘Disappointment’ as the number of students taking French, German and Spanish falls by 5.2% in a year </div>
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<p style="display:block">One statistic stood out a mile on exam
results day last week: National 5 entries in French had fallen by almost
1,000, or 10 per cent, in a single year.</p>
<p style="display:block">So what is going on? As long ago as 2015, University of Dundee academic and former secondary head Ji<span class="ellipse">...</span></p>
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