HYNDBURN’S MP is to write to all head teachers in the borough to ask them to teach more foreign languages.
Graham Jones also recently wrote to the county council about the teaching of Mandarin and Spanish to ‘prepare youngsters for the future’.
The Labour MP said: “In 20 years. time when most of these children begin their working life the world will have moved on significantly.
“China along with other developing countries will have far greater commercial and social ties to the rest of the world.
“China’s growing economic dominance is something our children need to prepare themselves for.”
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