{"id":287,"date":"2007-02-06T18:48:39","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T17:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/welsh-gaelic-education\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T18:48:39","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T17:48:39","slug":"welsh-gaelic-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Welsh and Gaelic education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurolang.net\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2808&#038;Itemid=1&#038;lang=en\">Eurolang<\/a>, education through the medium of Welsh is becoming so popular in Wales that there aren&#8217;t sufficient places in Welsh medium schools for all those who would like to attend them. As a result, the growth of Welsh medium education is being held up.<\/p>\n<p>Increasing numbers of parents are wanting to send their children to Welsh medium schools, even in mainly English-speaking areas, such as Newport, where 31% of parents surveyed said they would probably send their kids to Welsh medium schools if such schools where available nearby.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time enrolment in English medium schools has been dropping and many schools have empty places.<\/p>\n<p>In other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eveningtimes.co.uk\/news\/display.var.1161160.0.big_day_for_citys_new_gaelic_school.php\">news<\/a>, a brand new Gaelic medium school opened in Glasgow recently. It has 320 places and provides  nursery, primary and secondary for children between the ages of 3 and 18.<\/p>\n<p>Education through Welsh or Gaelic seems to be a very effective way for kids to acquire fluency in those languages, and the popularity of such education is encouraging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article on Eurolang, education through the medium of Welsh is becoming so popular in Wales that there aren&#8217;t sufficient places in Welsh medium schools for all those who would like to attend them. As a result, the growth of Welsh medium education is being held up. Increasing numbers of parents are wanting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,56,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-language","category-scottish-gaelic","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}