ALBANIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Early day motion 1105, tabled 16 March 2010 by John Grogan (Labour). Signed by 16 members.

That this House commends the work of Albanian societies in the United Kingdom for organising teaching of the Albanian language; notes that the Asset Languages Scheme is a voluntary assessment scheme for the language ladder introduced by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and provides accreditation for the skills of language learners of all ages and abilities from primary through to further, higher and adult education; calls on the Department and the contractor who run the scheme Cambridge Assessment to consider adding the Albanian language to the Asset Language programme; and urges the five examination boards AQA, CCEA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC to consider carefully the case for adding Albanian to the list of languages which can be studied to GCSE level.

Signatures by party: Labour 12, Liberal Democrat 2, Conservative 1, Scottish National Party 1.