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Dept for Education and Skills

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Dr. Starkey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her answer of 2 July 2001, Official Report, column 36W, on community languages, if she will list those specialist language colleges which offer (a) Urdu, (b) Bengali, (c) Gujerati, (d) Hindi and (e) Chinese. [2356] Mr. Timms: I understand that of the 99 specialist language colleges in operation as of September 2000, 46 offer one or more of the languages in question to an accredited level: Urdu (17), Bengali (10), Gujerati (7), Hindi (1) and Chinese (31). The names of the 46 schools are given in the following table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. School LEA Urdu Bengali Gujerati Hindi Chinese 1 Arden school Solihull -- -- -- -- Yes 2 Ashcombe Surrey -- -- -- -- Yes school 3 Bishop Heber Cheshire -- -- -- -- Yes county high school 4 Bournemouth Bournemouth -- -- -- -- Yes school 5 Bullers Wood London -- -- -- -- Yes school borough of Bromley 6 Chatham Medway -- -- -- -- Yes grammar school for boys 7 Clevedon North -- -- -- -- Yes community Somerset school 8 Cranford London Yes -- Yes Yes Yes community borough of high school Hounslow 9 Dallam school Cumbria -- -- -- -- -- 10 Dartford Kent -- Yes Yes -- -- grammar school 11 Elizabeth London -- Yes -- -- -- Garrett borough of Anderson Islington school 12 Gosforth high Newcastle Yes -- -- -- -- school upon Tyne 13 Haydon school Hillingdon -- -- Yes -- Yes 14 Hele's school City of -- -- -- -- Yes Plymouth 15 Hockerill Hertfordshire -- -- -- -- Yes Anglo- European school 16 Hummersknott Darlington Yes -- -- -- -- school 17 Ian Ramsey CE Stockton on Yes -- -- -- -- school Tees 18 Judgemeadow City of -- -- Yes -- -- community Leicester college 19 Katharine Gloucester -- -- -- -- Yes Lady Berkeleys school 20 King Edward Sheffield Yes -- -- -- -- VII school 21 Kingsthorpe Northamptonsh Yes Yes Yes -- Yes community ire school 22 Levenshulme Manchester Yes Yes -- -- Yes high school 23 Little Lever Bolton Yes -- -- -- Yes school 24 Lord Grey Milton Keynes Yes -- -- -- Yes school 25 Lymm high Warrington -- -- -- -- Yes school 26 Millais West Sussex -- -- -- -- Yes school 27 Monkseaton North -- Yes -- -- Yes community Tyneside high school 28 Montgomery Blackpool -- -- -- -- Yes high school 29 Moseley Birmingham Yes Yes -- -- -- school 30 Northgate Suffolk -- Yes -- -- -- high school 31 Oulder Hill Rochdale Yes -- -- -- -- community school 32 Prince Henrys Leeds -- -- -- -- Yes grammar school 33 Queen Mary's Walsall Yes Yes Yes -- -- high school 34 Royal grammar Buckinghamshi -- -- -- -- Yes school re 35 Shireland Sandwell Yes -- -- -- Yes language school 36 Sir Thomas Gloucestershi -- -- Yes -- -- Rich's school re 37 St. Edward's Liverpool -- -- -- -- Yes college 38 Tavistock Devon -- -- -- -- Yes college 39 The Harwich Essex -- -- -- -- Yes school 40 The Holy Bradford Yes -- -- -- -- Family school 41 The John Wiltshire -- -- -- -- Yes Bentley school 42 The Sir John Tower Hamlet Yes Yes -- -- Yes Cass's Foundation and Red Coat CE school 43 Tile Hill Coventry Yes -- -- -- -- Wood school 44 William Ellis London -- Yes -- -- Yes school borough of Camden 45 Wolverhampton Wolverhampton -- -- Yes -- Yes Girls' high school 46 Woodbridge Redbridge Yes -- -- -- Yes high school Total 17 10 7 1 31 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

2356; 371 c300-2W;371 c300-1W

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Curriculum Languages Schools Specialist schools

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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