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On the subject of businesses and foreign languages, what work is the Minister doing to get companies more closely involved with secondary schools to make learning foreign languages relevant, and to put the business application and the real-life experience together?
On the subject of businesses and foreign languages, what work is the Minister doing to get companies more closely involved with secondary schools to make learning foreign languages relevant, and to put the business application and the real-life experience together?
The hon. Lady makes a very good point. The careers and enterprise company recently announced by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is doing precisely that—inspiring schools and young people to engage with business in considering their future careers. The importance of that has been shown by other surveys. The Economist this week points to a 2012 British Chambers of Commerce survey of 8,000 British companies, reporting that 96% of them had no foreign language speakers. In a country like Britain—an international trading nation—that is a disgrace and something we are working hard to remedy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps his Department is taking to ensure full participation in the European Indicators Project by official bodies and UK assessment organisations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps his Department is taking to ensure full participation in the European Indicators Project by official bodies and UK assessment organisations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what steps his Department is taking to ensure full participation in the European Indicators Project by official bodies and UK assessment organisations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what steps his Department is taking to ensure full participation in the European Indicators Project by official bodies and UK assessment organisations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what steps his Department is taking to ensure full participation in the European Indicators Project by official bodies and UK assessment organisations;
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what steps his Department is taking to ensure full participation in the European Indicators Project by official bodies and UK assessment organisations;
(2) what steps the Government are taking to ensure that the work under way in the UK in relation to language and social inclusion through the Asset languages programme and UK Languages Ladder initiative (a) is better known across the European Union and (b) is taken into consideration as arrangements...
(2) what steps the Government are taking to ensure that the work under way in the UK in relation to language and social inclusion through the Asset languages programme and UK Languages Ladder initiative (a) is better known across the European Union and (b) is taken into consideration as arrangements...
Adjournment debate on foreign language teaching.
Adjournment debate on foreign language teaching.