Title of report:
A Language Crisis?
Author:
Megan Bowler
Published by:
Higher Education Policy Institute, HEPI Report 123, released December 2019
From the Executive Summary:
"The UK continues to lag behind other European countries at language learning: 32 per cent of 16-to-30-year olds in the UK feel confident reading and writing in another language, compared to the rest of the EU's 89 per cent average."
To read this report:
https://www.hepi.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/HEPI_A-Languages-Crisis_Report-123-FINAL.pdf