Sentence examples for compulsory foreign from inspiring English sources

If we are going to be serious about compulsory foreign languages, we need to start teaching them in the primary school".

Many dinner-party intellectuals are comfortable decrying the "easy" subjects on offer in schools today as they long for a return to compulsory foreign languages and the classics.

Nigel de Gruchy, general secretary of the National Association of School Masters/ Union of Women Teachers said: "We suffer from a 'yob' culture among certain youngsters, which makes a mockery of compulsory foreign languages.

The House of Lords EU committee has also called for compulsory foreign language lessons in primary and secondary schools, saying the UK's attitude to languages had prevented its students from studying in Europe.

Along with the switch to English, there were also plans to make Italian-language and culture courses compulsory for foreign students, making up 10 of the 120 credits required for master's programs.

It wasn't supposed to happen like this, says Estelle Morris, the former Education Secretary who in February 2002 announced the decision to remove a compulsory modern foreign language from KS4 - the stage of the curriculum for 14 to 16-year-olds.

Hoping to avoid a wholesale public revolt over ID cards, the Home Office has initially (perhaps slyly) made them compulsory only for foreign students and foreign nationals resident in the UK.

China's new antimonopoly laws would allow compulsory licensing of foreign technologies in some cases and require foreign companies that wanted to merge with or buy a Chinese company to transfer technology to China.

Gove said the government may make it compulsory to study foreign languages up to GCSE.

Similarly, the powers that Hitler gave to his chief labour commissioner, Fritz Sauckel, for the compulsory enrollment of foreign workers into the German armaments industry were soon applied to the whole of German-dominated Europe and ultimately turned 7,500,000 people into forced or slave labourers.

Some schools delivered programs that ran for only one semester (approximately 20 weeks) or one term (approximately 10 weeks) of the academic year, even in the compulsory years of foreign language education.