‘Learning Chinese in schools is irrelevant to children’

Expert urges focus on Europe

ANDREW DENHOLM EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT
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THE current fashion for learning Chinese languages in Scottish schools is misplaced, an academic has warned. Dr Dan Tierney, a reader in languages at Strathclyde University, said Mandarin was hard to learn at first and had less relevance to pupils...

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