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Will we accidentally lose our capability in geopolitically key languages as universities close provision?
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Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy, the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences, said it was "sensible for universities to have more regional conversations about how they provide languages to students". But he believed the bigger and "longer-term question is, what languages do we think we need strategic provision in nationally, and how should that be safeguarded? "It would for example be geopolitically unwise to find ourselves without capable Russian or Chinese speakers. While it's easy to turn off the tap, it's much harder to turn it back on.
August 13, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Certainly a worrying time. This (paywall), from a corner of the Anglosphere recently, is more positive about University as an effective route out of poverty www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
June 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM