"The difficulties in persuading pupils to study foreign languages at Higher has been underlined by a report that compares languages and social subjects uptake."
"The difficulties in persuading pupils to study foreign languages at Higher has been underlined by a report that compares languages and social subjects uptake.
The report, which uses social subjects as a comparator since many pupils choose these over languages, finds that the "conversion rate" for languages from Standard grade and Intermediate is "significantly" below that for social subjects."
Higher entries for languages and social subjects, 2012 (pre-appeal)
History 9,831
Geography 7,837
Modern studies 8,184
French 4,688
Spanish 1,593
German 1,118.
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