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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/languages-plea-to-state-schools.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="State school pupils risk losing out on top jobs because of a lack of opportunities to study languages, a survey suggests" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-languages-plea-to-state-schools.jpg" alt="State school pupils risk losing out on top jobs because of a lack of opportunities to study languages, a survey suggests"/></a></p>
<p>State school pupils risk losing out on top jobs and university places because of a lack of opportunities to study languages, it has been suggested.</p>
<p>Private schools were more likely to make the subject compulsory and enter the majority of their pupils for a GCSE than state schools, according to the latest Language Trends survey from CILT, the National Centre for Languages.</p>
<p>In many maintained secondaries, pupils spend just two years studying another language, it found.</p>
<p>The study shows that the proportion of schools where more than half of Year 11 pupils are studying a language dropped to 38% in 2010 from 43% the year before.</p>
<p>In comparison, some 94% of private schools had more than 50% of Year 11 pupils taking the subject.</p>
<p>And while languages were compulsory in 89% of independent schools, the same was true in just 20% of state schools.</p>
<p>CILT chief executive Kathryn Board said: &#8220;The coalition Government have talked about closing the gap. Even in terms of opportunities what&#8217;s happening with languages is that gap is widening, not closing.</p>
<p>&#8220;In order to close that gap, from an educational point of view, many, many more children in state schools have to have the opportunity to learn a language, and understand the benefit of learning a language for social mobility, for employment as well as for leisure.&#8221;</p>
<p>Professor Mike Kelly, programme director of Links into Languages, suggested that in future most universities will be looking for applicants with the Government&#8217;s new English Baccalaureate, of which a language is a key part.</p>
<p>&#8220;At the moment universities are finding it very difficult to recruit language undergraduates from the maintained sector, as a result of which increasing proportions of students doing languages degrees are from independent schools,&#8221; he said.</p>
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