Languages: Brighton
(asked on 18th July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will estimate the number of children who are studying a foreign language in the Brighton, Kemptown constituency; and if she will make a statement.
The Department for Education does not publish data on the number of children who are studying a foreign language in both primary and secondary schools.
The table below shows figures for pupils at the end of key stage 4 who were entered for at least one full modern foreign language GCSE in Brighton, Kemptown constituency. There are no equivalent figures for key stage 2.
Number of pupils1 entered for at least 1 full GCSE Modern Foreign | |||
Year: 2012/13 (final)2,3 | |||
Coverage: England4, state-funded schools (including Academies and CTCs) | |||
Number of eligible pupils1 | Number of pupils entered for at least 1 full | ||
E14000597 | Brighton, Kemptown | 556 | 161 |
Source: National Pupil Database (2012/13)
- Pupils at the end of key stage 4.
- Figures for 2012/13 figures are based on final data.
- From 2009/10 iGCSEs, accredited at time of publication, have been counted as GCSE equivalents and also as English & mathematics GCSEs.
- The figures in this table do not include pupils recently arrived from overseas.
Maintained secondary schools are required to teach a modern foreign language to all pupils. Research [1] shows that the vast majority of primary schools across England are already teaching a modern foreign language in class time and, from September, it will become statutory for maintained primary schools to do so.
[1] CfBT Education Trust Language Trends 2013/14: The state of language learning in primary and secondary schools in England (www.britishcouncil.org/sites/britishcouncil.uk2/files/language-trends-survey-2014.pdf)