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Responding to the current crisis: Part One: The Challenges

Responding to the current crisis: Part One: The Challenges. Michael Kelly University of Southampton Director, Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. Strategic outlook. Internationalisation – opportunities and threats Languages under pressure across the world English

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Responding to the current crisis: Part One: The Challenges

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  1. Responding to the current crisis:Part One: The Challenges Michael Kelly University of Southampton Director, Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies

  2. Strategic outlook • Internationalisation – opportunities and threats • Languages under pressure across the world • English • Nationalism • Technology

  3. Medium term outlook • Credit crunch - public funding reductions • Political uncertainties • Change of government? • Policy limbo • Policy issues • HE expansion? • HE funding

  4. Patterns of student choice • Social profile of students • Changes over 4-5 years (HESA data) • Languages and related Area Studies decrease by 4% over 5 years • Linguistics increase by 8% over 4 years • Students in all subjects increase by 8% over 4 years

  5. Students in languages and related area studies (FPE)

  6. Students in linguistics (FPE)

  7. Health of our subjects • Departmental closures (high profile) • Course withdrawals (low profile) • Fewer universities offer languages (c100) • Fewer major language courses (c44) • Fewer European studies courses (from 58 to 38) • Courses added • Linguistics grow from 34 to 54 universities

  8. Financial context • Outcome of RAE • QR funding reduced • Prospects in REF • Research Council funding more competitive • Student funding • Fee bands • Capped numbers

  9. Policy context • Strategically important but vulnerable • Support for increasing up-take (Routes into Languages) • Support for teaching excellence (CETLs, LBAS) • Overshadowed by STEM subjects

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