Tim Mayfield

Executive Director, Asia Education Foundation, University of Melbourne

Education

Australia’s ‘spectacular’ failure in languages

Despite living in an increasingly interconnected world, the proportion of Australia’s Year 12 students taking a language has plummeted to just 10 per cent

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