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Foreign Language Courses

Volume 448: debated on Thursday 13 July 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many sixth form institutions in England offer two or more modern foreign language courses. (82754)

Information is not collected on the subjects offered by sixth form institutions, however it is possible to provide figures on the number of institutions where at least one pupil has been entered for a particular subject.

2,329 sixth form institutions in England had entrants in two or more modern foreign language courses at GCE AS Level and GCE A Level in the academic year 2004/05.

This answer covers the following modern foreign languages: Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Modern Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Hindi, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Panjabi, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Urdu, and Persian.