{"id":7684,"date":"2012-10-02T17:45:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7684"},"modified":"2012-10-02T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T16:45:11","slug":"mandarin-in-uk-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7684","title":{"rendered":"Mandarin in UK schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article I found today in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/education\/schools\/why-mandarin-teachers-have-the-remote-control-8157371.html\">The Independent<\/a> there is a dire shortage of qualified teachers of Mandarin Chinese in the UK &#8211; only about 100 at the moment &#8211; and at the same time increasing numbers of schools want to offer Mandarin lessons. Apparently some 500 schools in the UK currently teach Mandarin, though most do so as a taster course or as an after school club. <\/p>\n<p>The government has a plan to train a thousand new Mandarin teachers, but that&#8217;s going to take quite a while. In the meantime one school mentioned in the article is using video conferencing to provide Mandarin lessons, which is a good temporary solution, though not as good as having a real, live teacher in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>So if those learning Mandarin in school continue studying it at university, there should be plenty of jobs available to them as teachers, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article I found today in The Independent there is a dire shortage of qualified teachers of Mandarin Chinese in the UK &#8211; only about 100 at the moment &#8211; and at the same time increasing numbers of schools want to offer Mandarin lessons. Apparently some 500 schools in the UK currently teach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-education","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684","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=7684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}