UK Languages Work Pledge

We have written before about how it important it is that children learn a second language at school - and how sad it is that fewer children every year are studying languages in the UK. This is so important - both for the individual children who can benefit in adult life from exposure to another language and culture, and for the economy of the UK in global competition.

If you are in the UK, please sign the Languages Work Pledge organised by CILT (National Centre for Languages.) It is possible to stop the decline in language learning, but it needs government to restore the requirement for all children to learn a language to the age of 16.