[EDLING:301] Scotland: Language skills warning

[Francis M. Hult]

Times Education Supplement

Language skills warning

Cuts will impact on the economy if funding is not found 

Modern languages teachers have warned that funding for a number of initiatives 
is being withdrawn, or scaled down, putting young Scots at a disadvantage in 
the jobs market. 

Members of the Scottish Assoc­iation for Language Teaching (SALT) have joined 
other organisations in calling on the Scottish Executive to give greater 
funding and prominence to the teaching of traditional European and minority 
community languages. 

Many of the respondents to the executive’s proposed A Strategy for Scotland’s 
Languages argued that Scots are already being disadvantaged, at home and 
abroad, because of poor language skills compared with other nations. 

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