Cambridge drops language demand
BBC says, "A language GCSE stopped being compulsory in 2004
Cambridge University has dropped its requirement for applicants to have a language GCSE because too few pupils now take them.
Independent schools still tend to offer languages, despite them being no longer compulsory beyond the age of 14.
However, only 17% of state schools offer them and less than half of GCSE pupils overall take them."
In my ay you could not get into any university without a foreign language and for Oxbridge you needed Latin too. And they tell us standards have not fallen? What happened to the EUromania?
Cambridge University has dropped its requirement for applicants to have a language GCSE because too few pupils now take them.
Independent schools still tend to offer languages, despite them being no longer compulsory beyond the age of 14.
However, only 17% of state schools offer them and less than half of GCSE pupils overall take them."
In my ay you could not get into any university without a foreign language and for Oxbridge you needed Latin too. And they tell us standards have not fallen? What happened to the EUromania?
posted by Graham Weeks at 12:58 pm
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