A-level results 2012: foreign languages 'need eurozone-style bail-out'

By Graeme Paton. Foreign languages are being gripped by a eurozone-style crisis as rising numbers of teenagers shun the subject at school and college, senior examiners warned today.
Traditional A-level disciplines such as French and German are in “freefall” following a record decline in entry rates over the last decade, it emerged. Britain’s biggest exam boards called for a bail-out package similar to that used to rescue ailing European economies to restore confidence in language courses.