{"id":3942,"date":"2010-11-24T17:49:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T16:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2010-11-24T17:49:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T16:49:50","slug":"languages-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=3942","title":{"rendered":"Languages in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article I found today in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/8155517\/Pupils-to-learn-a-language-in-GCSE-shake-up.html\">The Telegraph<\/a>, the British government have decided to tinker with the education system yet again and plan to reintroduce compulsory foreign languages in secondary schools up to the add of 16. Their plan is to make languages one of five core subjects along with English, mathematics, a science and one of the humanities.<\/p>\n<p>I understand from friends who work in education that such reforms and changes rarely have much time to settle before the next lot come along. It&#8217;s only six years since the requirement for languages in secondary schools was dropped, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think it&#8217;s a good idea to make the study of languages compulsory in schools?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article I found today in The Telegraph, the British government have decided to tinker with the education system yet again and plan to reintroduce compulsory foreign languages in secondary schools up to the add of 16. Their plan is to make languages one of five core subjects along with English, mathematics, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942","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=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}