At an Intelligence Squared debate last week, Professor Mary Beard gave some indications of how the teaching of languages has suffered in state education.
- Fewer than 500 state schools now offer any classical languages and much of this teaching is offered in the 'twilight' hours after most classes have finished.
- The government is not providing enough training of classics teachers to replace the ones who will retire.
- The numbers taking French GCSE have fallen by 100,000 since 2004.
- There is some difficulty in finding sufficient translators for the London Olympics.
- Generally speaking she was Left-wing and disliked private schools but she wished them to survive because they were the place in which language and classics teaching were continuing.
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