Language Trends 2006 - Further Education
Key findings

The 2006 Language Trends research includes a survey of FE colleges throughout the UK as part of CILT's Language Skills Alliance work. It looks at vocationnaly related language learning in further education.

The findings are based on a 46% response achieved from 139 colleges to date.

Key findings:

• Fewer than half of the FE colleges surveyed across the UK offer
  opportunities to learn languages in or alongside vocational courses.

• One in four of those colleges that do offer languages has reduced
  its provision, and nearly half expect further decreases in learner
  numbers.

• The survey identified fewer than 2,000 language learners on
  vocational study courses in the colleges surveyed.

• Spanish is overwhelmingly the most popular language offered,
  followed by French, Italian and German.There is very little provision
  at all for any other languages.

• Travel and Tourism is the main vocational area to which language
  courses are linked, followed by Business.

• There is some evidence of innovative provision and some optimism about future prospects for languages in FE.

 

• Read the final report (pdf)
• Read the press release (pdf)
• Read the full statistical report (pdf)
• Read the survey (pdf)