UK: 'Class divide' as language study falls in North

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


Times Online



'Class divide' as language study falls in North



A North-South divide is opening up in the study of modern foreign
languages at GCSE, figures suggest.



In more than 100 of the 150 local authorities in England fewer than
half of 16-year-olds took a GCSE in a modern foreign language. In ten
areas, mostly in the North, more than three quarters of teenagers are
dropping language study at GCSE, according to the Department for
Children, Schools and Families.



Michael Gove, the Shadow Children's Secretary, said that it was
further evidence of a class divide. "Once again it is the poorest
areas that are missing out as the opportunity gap between the
fortunate and the forgotten widens," he said.



Full story:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article4576794.ece

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