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ERIC Number: ED625062
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 4
Abstractor: ERIC
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Talking Business: How Increasing Languages Education in the UK Could Benefit the Economy. Research Brief. RB-A1814-1
Ayres-Bennett, Wendy; Hafner, Marco; Dufresne, Eliane; Yerushalmi, Erez
RAND Europe
A research report from the University of Cambridge and RAND Europe shows that investing in languages education in the UK could return more than the investment cost. Researchers explored a gap in the evidence relating to the economic benefits of extending languages education and found that an increase in secondary-school pupils learning one of four different languages could increase UK GDP by billions of pounds over 30 years. In a closely interconnected world, the ability to communicate in different languages has become increasingly important for the globally integrated business community. However, the UK has experienced a sharp drop overall in the number of pupils learning languages since 2004. At a time when the UK government seeks to reset its global economic relationships as part of its vision of 'Global Britain', this research shows that such a decline in languages could have negative effects on the UK's ability to compete internationally. [This work was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. For the Research Report "The Economic Value to the UK of Speaking Other Languages. RR-A1814-1," see ED625061.]
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Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: RAND Europe; University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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