Australia: NSW kids to get '90 minutes a day' of Asian language

Wed Nov 4 23:15:55 UTC 2009

The Australian

NSW kids to get '90 minutes a day' of Asian language

Starting in kindergarten, students will take up Mandarin, Korean, Japanese or Indonesian for at least 90 minutes a day, across every class except English and mathematics, according to The Daily Telegraph. 

Four government primary schools - Rouse Hill Public and Murray Farm in Sydney's north-west, Scotts Head Public on the North Coast and Campsie Public in Sydney's inner-west - have been selected as the first to specialise in an Asian language.

Full story:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26303397-26103,00.html

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