European Language Degree Courses Abandoned by many UK Universities More than a third of UK universities have given up offering specialist modern European language degrees over the past 15 years, the Guardian has found, as leading academics argue harsh marking at A-level is putting teenagers off studying the subject at school. Since 1998, the number of universities offering French, German, Italian and Spanish as single honours degrees or jointly with another language has plunged by 40% and the rate of decline has increased in recent years. The number of universities offering degrees in the worst affected subject, German, has halved over the past 15 years. There are 40% fewer institutions where it is possible to study French on its own or with another language, while Italian is down 23% and Spanish is down 22%. The result is that languages are increasingly elite subjects, studied at an ever decreasing number of top universities. "If this rate of decline continues, two or three language departments will close every year and the remaining students will have a lot less choice," said Michael Kelly, head of modern languages at Southampton University and former adviser to both the coalition and Labour governments on modern languages. Click the link for the full article. ______________________________ Language Teaching Professionals: ltprofessionals/ https://twitter/LTProfessionals facebook/LanguageTeachingProfessionals linkedin/groups/LTP-Language-Teaching-Professionals-4610447 theguardian/education/2013/oct/07/european-language-degree-courses-abandoned-universities
Posted on: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 11:00:25 +0000
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