Offer accredited language teaching to all students, says report

Hepi paper calls for broad range of measures to boost ailing subject in UK higher education

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January 9, 2020

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January 9, 2020

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Lost for words? ‘it is more urgent than ever that we re-evaluate our attitudes towards languages’

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