Oral Answers to Questions

David Mackintosh Excerpts

Monday 10th October 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Gibb]

There is a Royal College of Teaching. We are meeting the initial funding costs of the Royal College of Teaching, and it is going to be a great success. I should point out that 95% of all teachers in our system have qualified teacher status and that 93% of all teachers in academies have QTS.

[David Mackintosh (Northampton South) (Con)]

7. What steps the Government are taking to increase the uptake of languages.

[The Secretary of State for Education (Justine Greening)]

The inclusion of a language in the EBacc increased the numbers of students studying at least one language at GCSE between 2010 and 2015, and the Government’s ambition is that more pupils in mainstream secondary schools enter the EBacc subjects at GCSE.

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[Victoria Prentis (Banbury) (Con)]

12. What steps the Government are taking to increase the uptake of languages.

[David Mackintosh]

Does my right hon. Friend agree that new schools such as Northampton International Academy, where I am the chair of governors, are crucial to secure the mix of education options that this country needs, with a focus on languages?