He said that inadequate funding would mean that pupils would face less teaching in bigger classes and that some sixth forms might be forced to drop less popular subjects, such as languages.
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More than half of the graduate students who study less-commonly taught languages (such as Hindi, Indonesian and Farsi) and 78% of those who study the least-common languages such as Pashto and Urdu do so at Title VI-funded National Resource Centers.
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.
In addition, the new Reader line offers users on-screen functionality to look up words and phrases with the built-in New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition and Oxford Dictionary of English eDictionaries, as well as 10 translation dictionaries in languages such as French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.
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As well as core subjects such as maths and languages, students can also do work experience and voluntary placements.
Moreover, the program was able to recognise the singularity of languages such as Basque and Maltese.
Czechoslovakian-born Sir Tom wants to protect languages such as Russian, Czech and Polish.
Sabre Holdings' hotel reservations arm, likewise, has cut operating costs by 50% by upgrading to embrace newer computer languages such as Java and run on open-source software.
But with the new release ESRI will make big use of standard Web languages such as XML and Java to create maps far easier to use--and more fun--for clients.
The second was the recent refusal by President Jacques Chirac to change the French constitution to give recognition to regional languages such as Corsican, a dialect closer to Italian than French.
Financial institutions have long employed armies of developers to maintain their complex back office systems but until recently the majority of these developers worked in programming languages such as COBOL which have little applicability to startups.
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Sabre Holdings (nyse: TSG - news - people )' hotel reservations arm, likewise, has cut operating costs by 50% by upgrading to embrace newer computer languages such as Java and run on open-source software.
They hire better-qualified teachers, and more of them, offering higher salaries to lure those with qualifications in difficult subjects such as physics, mathematics and foreign languages, and now have twice as many teachers per pupil as state schools do.
Pupils will specialise in engineering and science alongside other subjects such as English, maths, languages and business.
There are 27 member states, but a few countries have common languages, such as German, French and Dutch.
The Commission is already preparing for the next wave of enlargement, which could mean more languages, such as Romanian and Bulgarian.
Indeed, some computer languages, such as the Unified Modelling Language ( see article), have been developed specifically to help programmers do their jobs.
These qualities, though, are offset by arbitrary spelling, and, besides, there are other languages, such as Russian, that have spread despite being difficult to master.
It makes you learn dead languages, such as obscure weather hieroglyphics.
The EU funds projects to promote regional minority languages, such as the European minority language song contest , and participation at the UN forum on minorities.
One challenge is improving the algorithms of natural language processing by adapting to the specialist languages area such as medicine and finance, where Watson is learning to work.
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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.
And they work for the preservation of minority languages in Sweden, such as Sami and Romani.
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Degrees such as medicine, law, sciences and languages deliver higher returns than arts and humanities.
And Lionel Jospin, France's prime minister, now says that non-French languages in France, such as Breton, should be given greater due.
Net, but none of the traditional languages of the data center such as C or Cobol.
Prof Petri Kallio from the University of Helsinki suggests that several cognate words describing technological inventions - such as the wheel - are evident across different languages.
Tribal leaders began petitioning the folks at Apple to include Cherokee on its official list of languages supported by Apple products such as iPhones, iPods and iPads.
It also hopes to use new technology to tackle social exclusion, such as ensuring call centres employ staff who speak different languages in areas with large ethnic groups.
The manuscripts are written in many languages from the Oriental peoples, such as Uzbek, Arabic, Persian, Tajik, Urdu, Pashtu, Azerbaijani, Turkish, Tatar, Turkmen, and Uyghur and then translated in different at different periods, showing us the interrelations of the people, enhanced by the Silk Road.
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