UK: French disappearing from GCSE classrooms

[Francis Hult]

Via lgpolicy...
 

French disappearing from GCSE classrooms

As number of pupils taking GCSE French and German falls, teachers urge
ministers to review optional status of languages State schools are
slowly abandoning modern foreign languages, with fewer than three in
10 teenagers now taking French GCSE, today's results show. Teachers
pressed ministers urgently to review their "totally mistaken" decision
five years ago to make foreign languages optional at the age of 14.
The number of pupils who took French GCSE this year dropped 6.6% on
last year, to 188,688, while German fell by 4.2% to just under one in
11 pupils - 73,469. It is the seventh year in a row that French and
German entrance numbers have slumped.

Full story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/aug/27/french-abandoned-gcse-state-school


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