Languages: Education
(asked on 12th July 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the annual cost of supporting Modern Foreign Languages Hubs.
The annual funding of the existing Mandarin Excellence Programme committed by the department since the launch in 2016 is set out in the table below:
Financial year | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | Total |
Funding | 0.93 | 1.47 | 2.63 | 1.35 | 2.97 | 9.35 |
The programme is led by the Institute of Education, University College London. It initially started with 14 schools and has now grown to 75 schools with over 6,300 pupils, and the increased funding over the period reflects this. The next phase of the programme and funding is due to be announced shortly and will start from September this year.
The funding of the Modern Foreign Language (MFL) Pedagogy Pilot Hubs by contract period, committed by the department, is set out in the table below:
Contract period | Dec 2018 | Dec 2020 | Dec 2021 | Total |
Funding | 2.17 | 1.45 | 1.17 | 4.79 |
The MFL Pedagogy Pilot is managed by the National Centre for Excellence for Languages Pedagogy (NCELP) and was launched in December 2018. In addition to the support provided to the 45 schools in the pilot programme, NCELP has also so far developed Key Stage 3 schemes of work, lesson plans and accompanying resources for French, German and Spanish, which are available free of charge through its resource portal for all teachers.
In the 4th year of the programme, NCELP will deliver free professional development courses on MFL curriculum design and pedagogy to over 1,350 teachers nationally and develop fully resourced schemes of work for Key Stage 4 that will align with the new GCSE in French, German and Spanish.