Fewer students are choosing to take only modern languages at university, the report said.
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There has been a large fall in numbers taking modern languages at GCSE in England.
In Scotland, most local authorities have put modern languages into the primary curriculum according to Scottish Cilt.
She studied modern languages at Oxford and is a fluent French and Italian speaker with some "rusty Japanese".
In order to make room for the new courses, 14-year-olds will no longer be required to learn modern languages.
Modern languages courses in higher education have also come under pressure, with courses closing because of a lack of students.
Oxford came top for English language and literature, philosophy, modern languages and geography in the QS World University Rankings by subject.
But the government's ambitions to extend language teaching to younger pupils will depend on tackling a shortage of modern languages teachers.
And there will also be 200 more specialist modern languages schools for secondary pupils, to be created in the next three years.
Senior Lecturer of Modern Languages at the University of Kent, Paul Coggle, described how Estuary English had now spread to most of South-East England.
The recommendations - made by the government's Modern Languages Working Group - also suggest that children should learn a third language no later than P5.
He said Amber had been forced to put her ambitions to become a modern languages teacher on hold as the appropriate university courses were not offered in Chile.
The amendment from Lib Dem MSP Margaret Smith, which stressed the importance of modern languages and science in modern society and the global marketplace, was backed without opposition.
The "arrow of time" is based on the notion that it is possible to use data from modern languages to trace their origins back 10, 000 years or even further.
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From the Enlightenment onwards, the idea of education as an entitlement began to take hold, and curriculums were broadened to include more utilitarian subjects such as the sciences and modern languages.
Who would doubt that modern languages would be better taught by slumming around Europe for four years than by a few hours a week of instruction in an otherwise unilingual environment?
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He commented that the school had experienced "an increasing discomfort with the quality of assessment" and had been forced to challenge the exam boards and ask for remarks, particularly in modern languages.
There have also been fears that the types of subjects and qualifications taken by pupils can be divided by social background - such as modern languages becoming increasingly dominated by pupils in independent schools.
Lord Simon who ran BP from 1992 to 1995 had a modern languages degree from Cambridge and Sir Peter Walters who was chairman of BP from 1981 to 1990 graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree.
Prior to joining the United Nations in 1981, Mr. Mahmoud worked as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Tunis, Tunisia, and as Chairman of the English Department of the Bourguiba Institute of Modern Languages in Tunis.
While COBOL has not gone away at the banks, more and more of the technical staff spend their time programming new features and interfaces in modern languages and web application frameworks that provide highly applicable and transferable skills to startups only too happy to hire them for their technical training and domain experience.
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Dubin, a professor emeritus of modern classical languages at the College of Saint Benedict and St.
Entries for modern foreign languages were more variable, as was also the case in England.
At the moment, 14 to 16-year-olds in England have to study English, maths, science, design and technology, modern foreign languages, information and communications technology and PE.
Then, he suggests, the CIO should bring in young programmers who may be working in other parts of the firm but know modern programming languages, understand mobile and Web to work with mainframe programmers.
Unlike earlier philosophers and idealists, who believed that their languages could perfect humanity, modern conlangers tend to create their languages primarily as a hobby and a form of self-expression.
On the way she picked up half a dozen languages and a taste for modern art, on which she spent much of her fortune.
Languages can be either ancient or modern, drawn from a list of 172 course options, ranging from classical Greek to Japanese and Urdu.
To find out whether anyone could really learn so many languages, Mr Erard set out to find modern Mezzofantis.
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