Languages face chop as Macquarie focuses on ‘cultural fluency’

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Teaching modern languages without culture will harm global relations

Aberdeen’s proposal to close language degree programmes might save money but it will impoverish international understanding, says Charles Burdett

By Charles Burdett

13 November

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New Zealand course cuts mean ‘catastrophic’ loss of Asia know-how

As a small fish in a very big pond, New Zealand can ill afford to turn its back on its giant neighbours, academics warn

By John Ross

2 August

Fears for academia’s ‘peacemaker’ role, as China expertise wanes

China studies programmes and language courses are on the decline, just as understanding of the superpower is needed most

By John Ross

20 March

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Language learning is at the heart of internationalisation

Anglophone universities must embrace the skills and cultural understanding that learning foreign languages instils, says Vicky Lewis

By Vicky Lewis

4 July

Languages face chop as Macquarie focuses on ‘cultural fluency’

Linguistic fluency ‘seldom achieved’ and peripheral to ‘the jobs of today and the future’, Australian university claims

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Teaching modern languages without culture will harm global relations

New Zealand course cuts mean ‘catastrophic’ loss of Asia know-how

Fears for academia’s ‘peacemaker’ role, as China expertise wanes

Language learning is at the heart of internationalisation

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Languages face chop as Macquarie focuses on ‘cultural fluency’

Linguistic fluency ‘seldom achieved’ and peripheral to ‘the jobs of today and the future’, Australian university claims

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Related articles

Teaching modern languages without culture will harm global relations

New Zealand course cuts mean ‘catastrophic’ loss of Asia know-how

Fears for academia’s ‘peacemaker’ role, as China expertise wanes

Language learning is at the heart of internationalisation

Related universities

Macquarie University

University of Melbourne

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