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Jo Wiggans Aimhigher Greater Manchester

Jo Wiggans Aimhigher Greater Manchester. Language applicants to HE: the statistical evidence. HEFCE review of MFL Oct 2009. ‘…there has been insufficient ‘joined up’ thinking about the role of foreign languages in the Uk over the past decade;...’

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Jo Wiggans Aimhigher Greater Manchester

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  1. Jo WiggansAimhigher Greater Manchester Language applicants to HE: the statistical evidence

  2. HEFCE review of MFL Oct 2009 • ‘…there has been insufficient ‘joined up’ thinking about the role of foreign languages in the Uk over the past decade;...’ • ‘It is also a concern that, despite significant investment in languages, the languages community sees its future health as dependent on additional funding from external bodies, rather than on its own actions.’

  3. Recommendation 6 ‘In addition to continuing their existing outreach and widening participation activities, university Language Departments should actively engage with schools at primary and secondary level to help to develop a languages curriculum for the 21st century. This may include proactive engagement with, and support for, the Languages Ladder and/or the Languages Diploma’

  4. In Schools • Increased provision in schools but focus on diversified provision. • Overall decrease in numbers progressing from KS4 into A level languages – but increases in community languages. • 92% schools offer languages at KS2

  5. UCAS accepted 2009 • Combs lang/humanities +4.8% • Combs European lang/lit/related +3.2% • Combs languages -7.2% • French +2.2% • Other European langs/lit/related -13.0% • Other non-European langs/related-51.2% • Numbers on non-European languages/studies too small to show trend data

  6. NW languages students

  7. Where do they go?

  8. Who are they?

  9. A closer look – Greater Manchester languages students

  10. HEFCE targeting criteria – IMD in most deprived 13,000?

  11. Data sources • Aimhigher Greater Manchester: www.aimhighergreatermanchester.com • Action on Access data service: www.actiononaccess.org • HEFCE Review of MFL report: www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2009/09_41/ • Email me: j.wiggans@open.ac.uk

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