“… A global shortage of teachers impedes the right of children and young people to access quality education.”
Alice McMahon went to school in Devon and is a graduate in Languages from Oxford University. She spent a year teaching English in Alsace, France on her year abroad and has also taught English in Oxford and Sierra Leone. She has recently returned from Senegal, where she spent several months teaching English to students from across Africa.
Opinion: Brexit would spell disaster for UK Language Learning
Languages are about connection, making links and shared understanding – leaving the EU is about breaking those links.
Make Languages a priority again
In the UK, the message students receive is that languages just aren’t a priority.