The Department for Education has launched a “flagship language programme” aimed at boosting languages takeup and lesson quality in primary and secondary schools.
Multiple initiatives were unveiled today amid alarm over the decline of languages in schools.
A parliamentary report last year dubbed language learning “consistently poor” versus other countries, and found the proportion of pupils studying modern language GCSEs plummeted from 86 per cent to 46 per cent between the late 1990s and 2020-21.
But the DfE wants 90 per cent of Years 10s studying the EBacc by 2025, which includes a language.
