Petition Help Cardiff University to keep their Modern Languages degree courses
Cardiff University's Executive Board proposes to cut all Modern Languages degrees. Losing Modern Language provision at Cardiff will severely impact student recruitment, student life and degree possibilities, and ultimately will damage the University's reputation and international standing. It will also damage language learning in Wales, and any opportunity for Welsh people to study languages degrees in their capital city.
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The Welsh government says: ‘Our vision is that Wales becomes a truly multilingual nation. It is a Programme for Government commitment to ‘expand the teaching of modern foreign languages in our schools’. We want to increase the number of learners studying languages, whatever their background or needs.
'Wales is a confident, forward-looking nation, and we will support all our learners to be citizens of Wales and the world. We want all our learners to reach their full potential and experience the many benefits of learning international languages, including broadening their horizons by learning about other people and cultures and equipping them with the language skills to compete in the global economy.’
Global Futures: A plan to improve and promote international languages in Wales 2022 to 2025 https://www.gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2023-11/atisn19152doc5a.pdf
Please uphold this, and refuse to lose Modern Language degree programmes from our capital city.
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