It has a dedicated foreign-language school with international teachers and touts its English-language teaching skills, the foreign studies of many of its faculty members and its alliances with foreign schools.

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The Foreign Office is reopening its language school, which closed in 2007 and has increased funding for courses.

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Having donated to a foreign-language learning program at my sons' school, for example, I felt motivated to write letters of protest when it became threatened by the school board.

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He told me his biggest challenge in education wasn't budget holes, it wasn't crumbling schools -- it was that the parents were too demanding. (Laughter.) He's had to import thousands of foreign teachers because parents insisted on English language training in elementary school.

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"We are reopening a language school in the FCO that will train up to 1, 000 staff a year, " Foreign Secretary William Hague said.

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