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Canada: language students stable after 2013 drop

Student numbers in Canada’s language teaching sector have begun to stabIlise after falling almost 10% in 2013, representative body Languages Canada’s 2014 annual report has revealed. Member programmes reported a 6% increase in student numbers from 129,704 in 2013 to 137,416 in 2014.

Study: Canada should promote bilingualism more

Canadian public schools aren’t doing enough to promote the country’s unique French/English bilingual society new research commissioned by the Canadian Association of Public Schools - International (CAPS-I) has found. The single most significant reason high school students choose to study in Canada for French language acquisition is the country’s bilingual environment it reports.

Visits up at French as a foreign language portal

A website promoting government-accredited French schools in France saw a surge of visitors in 2011. The qualitefle.fr site, which lists 91 schools with QFLE accreditation, received 106,004 visits last year against 77,352 in 2010 and 50,216 in 2009. Latin and North America showed most new interest in the site...

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