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Friday 13 July 2007

Language skills warning

Members of the Scottish Assoc­iation for Language Teaching (SALT) have joined other organisations in calling on the Scottish Executive to give greater funding and prominence to the teaching of traditional European and minority community languages. Many of the respondents to the executive’s proposed A Strategy for Scotland’s Languages argued that Scots are already being disadvantaged, at home and abroad, because of poor language skills compared with other nations.

Friday 13th July
Times Education Supplement

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