BBC – Staff Writer
“Mandarin in English schools will get a £10m boost, and 5,000 more pupils will learn it by 2020, George Osborne has said on a visit to China. The cash will be used to recruit and train teachers to teach the language to GCSE level, said the Chancellor in a speech to the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Mr Osborne suggested Mandarin would be more “relevant” than traditional options like French or German…Mr Osborne said the investment would “give more young people the opportunity to learn a language that will help them succeed in our increasingly global economy.”(more)