BBC Any Questions debate in Wales about 'too much emphasis' on Welsh

[Dave Sayers]

On last night's episode of Any Questions, hosted in Neath (south Wales), one of the 
questions for the panel was as follows:

"Do you think that too much emphasis on the Welsh language in our schools has caused 
Wales to score so poorly in the PISA rankings."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03qfzh7/?t=29m05s

If that link doesn't take you to the right place, just scroll to 29m05s. And it 
should work outside the UK (only the BBC's video content is UK-only).

For more info on Wales' recent disappointing PISA ranking, there's plenty of online 
news reportage and discussion, e.g. http://goo.gl/NVXWs5 (actually the comments below 
that story touch on the language issue too).

Dave

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Dr. Dave Sayers
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University, UK
dave.sayers at cantab.net
http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers