Move to protect teaching of languages in Scots universities

By Andrew Denholm. GREATER protection is to be given to threatened language teaching at Scottish universities. Any institution that wants to cut languages in future will have to alert funding bosses before any decision is made.
The Scottish Funding Council - the body that distributes public funding to higher education - would then assess whether the closure was detrimental to the range of languages taught in Scotland.
The council could also look at other issues, such as the importance of a subject to Scotland's economic future.
Where a closure was deemed detrimental, the council would then seek to broker a solution with the university or universities involved to safeguard future provision. More...