{"id":5584,"date":"2017-01-13T18:12:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T17:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clicasia.com\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2023-10-30T18:50:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T17:50:37","slug":"more-than-5000-children-to-learn-mandarin-as-part-of-10m-scheme-to-make-britain-more-competitive-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clicasia.com\/ca\/more-than-5000-children-to-learn-mandarin-as-part-of-10m-scheme-to-make-britain-more-competitive-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 5000 children to learn Mandarin as part of \u00a310m scheme to make Britain more competitive globally."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Students will intensively study the language for eight hours per week<\/li>\n<li>Mandarin excellence programme is designed to make them fluent by 2020<\/li>\n<li>It will initially be launched in 15 secondaries before being rolled out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than 5,000 state secondary school pupils will learn Mandarin in a \u00a310million government scheme.Students in England will intensively study the language for eight hours a week over the next four years.The Mandarin excellence programme \u2013 designed to make teenagers fluent by 2020 &#8211; will initially be launched in 15 secondaries before being rolled out.The Department for Education initiative is supported by the UCL Institute of Education, in partnership with the British Council.&nbsp;School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said: \u2018A high level of fluency in Mandarin Chinese will become increasingly important in our globally competitive economy.&nbsp;As part of our drive to extend opportunity, we want to give young people the opportunity to study the language and to acquire fluency in both spoken and written Mandarin.<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5586\" src=\"http:\/\/clicasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/34A38A4000000578-0-image-a-56_1473291043883-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clicasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/34A38A4000000578-0-image-a-56_1473291043883-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clicasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/34A38A4000000578-0-image-a-56_1473291043883-400x273.jpg 400w, https:\/\/clicasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/34A38A4000000578-0-image-a-56_1473291043883-600x409.jpg 600w, https:\/\/clicasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/34A38A4000000578-0-image-a-56_1473291043883.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students will intensively study the language for eight hours per week Mandarin excellence programme is designed to make them fluent by 2020 It will initially be launched in 15 secondaries before being rolled out More than 5,000 state secondary school pupils will learn Mandarin in a \u00a310million government scheme.Students in England will intensively study the language for eight hours a week over the next four years.The Mandarin excellence programme \u2013 designed to make teenagers fluent by 2020 &#8211; will initially be launched in 15 secondaries before being rolled out.The Department for Education initiative is supported by the UCL Institute of Education, in partnership with the British Council.&nbsp;School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said: \u2018A high level of fluency in Mandarin Chinese will become increasingly important in our globally competitive economy.&nbsp;As part of our drive to extend opportunity, we want to give young people the opportunity to study the language and to acquire fluency in both spoken and written Mandarin. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2450,2451,2449,7],"tags":[2346,28,31,33,34,497,99],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articulos-clicasia","category-barcelona","category-clicasia","category-culturasia","tag-articulos","tag-barcelona","tag-china","tag-chino","tag-clases","tag-clicasia","tag-cursos-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clicasia.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clicasia.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clicasia.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clicasia.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clicasia.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clicasia.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clicasia.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clicasia.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clicasia.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clicasia.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}