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Schools: Primary Curriculum

Answer

The level of funding this year and in the past five years is set out in the table below. We have given increased funding through local authorities via the Standards Fund to support the teaching of languages in primary schools—£32.5 million in 2009-10. Schools can use this for a variety of purposes, including paying for in-service training for teachers and teaching assistants. In addition, the Government have provided funding to the Training and Development Agency for Schools for a primary initial teacher training (ITT) course in a languages specialism and, more recently, for additional training routes to increase the language qualification levels of the primary workforce; to CILT, the National Centre for Languages, to run training courses for local authority staff and schools on practical classroom activities, teaching practice and methodology; and to the British Council to run the Primary Teacher Project, through which primary teachers undertake a two week programme of language tuition through a partner school in Europe, to develop their confidence and linguistic competence.

	Standards Fund	TDA Primary ITT course in a languages specialism	TDA additional training routes	CILT training courses	British Council 2 week primary teacher project
2009-10	£32,500,000	1,550,000	124,735	1,154,279	287,970
2008-09	£32,500,000	1,334,460	160,800 (first year)	1,776,000	272,742
2007-08	£27,500,000	1,528,762		1,385,720	255,000
2006-07	£21,986,000	£1,221,449		1,682,300	345,590 (first year ran from Jan 06 to Mar 07)
2005-06	4,992,000 (first year)	£914,880		450,000
2004-05		£547,000		350,000

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

5721; 713 c108-9WA

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Finance Languages Primary education Teachers Training Primary Curriculum Review

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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