Question reference: S3W-01010
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 14 June 2007
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Current status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 26 June 2007
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been allocated to local authorities for the (a) training of primary school teachers to teach modern languages and (b) teaching of modern languages in primary schools in each year since 1990.
Answer
In January 1993, ministersannounced that all Scottish primary schools should offer teaching in a modernEuropean language. To facilitate this a national modern languages in theprimary school (MLPS) training programme was set up to train primary languagesteachers. Between 1993 and 2001 over £23 million was provided for MLPStraining.Following thepublication of the report Citizens of a Multilingual World in 2000 andthe Executive’s response to this in 2001, MLPS funding was replaced by ageneral languages fund, which could be used by authorities to support languagelearning and teaching in Primary as well as Secondary schools. Details on thisfunding stream are provided in the response to the answer to question S3W-1009 on26 June 2007. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at