A campaign has been launched to tackle a decline in the number of young people learning modern languages at A-level in south west state schools. A network of schools in Devon and Cornwall has joined ...
It's time to wake up to the danger of the potential disappearance of modern foreign languages in our schools and universities, says Tony McAleavy In 1996, over 22,000 students took French A Level but ...
Students are being put off studying languages for GCSE and A-Level because the exams are disproportionately difficult and marked too harshly, academics have warned. In a letter to the Guardian, 152 ...
Migrants coming to the UK to work will need to learn English to an A-level standard under new rules set to be introduced. Tougher requirements for speaking, listening, reading and writing will be ...
Sixth-formers stand a better chance of scoring a top grade in A-level languages courses this summer after an adjustment was made to grading. As part of an attempt to help non-native speakers, ...
A sharp decline in entries to modern foreign language A-levels has been blamed by head teachers on severe funding pressures. Entries to A-levels in French have dropped by 6.4% from last year, in ...
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We offer courses from Beginner to Advanced level (French, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish), from Beginner to Intermediate level (Arabic, Catalan, German, Japanese, Portuguese), and Beginner to Elementary ...
When can I take a language unit? The University-wide language units are offered mainly at Academic Levels 4 (C) and 5 (I), that is, for your first two years of study. However, you may also take a ...