Why the drop in university applications for languages is worrying

By Nigel Vincent. Michael Booth took a few well-aimed shots at the myth of the Nordic Utopia this week. Like him, I too am married to a Dane and regularly spend time there, and I can testify to one thing that they definitely get right: their school language policy. One foreign language, English, is obligatory for all pupils. We used to have a similar principle here until the last government abandoned it in 2004. More...