Languages: Teachers
(asked on 13th January 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Smith of Malvern on 8 January (HL Deb col 1407), what estimate they have made of the number of UK nationals training as modern foreign language teachers in the next five years, in the light of the reduction in university modern language courses.
This question was answered on 27th January 2026
In academic year 2025/26, there were 765 UK nationals starting postgraduate initial teacher training in modern foreign languages. The department has not made any estimate of the impact of a reduction in university modern languages courses on UK national modern foreign languages trainee teachers.