The British Academy published, on February 2013, "Languages: the State of the Nation" which provides with fresh evidence of the career benefits of speaking or learning a second language.
The newly published report indicates that there is a considerable demand for languages that cannot be readily accessed in the UK education system. This indicates that the gap between supply and demand is likely to continue, if not widen, in the near future.
The employer research and labour market intelligence shows that there is a need for a wide range of languages at all levels of the workforce and in most sectors. About half of the jobs reviewed for the research requested French, Spanish or German, demonstrating that the languages we teach are by no means as useless as the various media stories would have us believe.
From a careers perspective, there is some compelling evidence. Labour market intelligence shows that the Finance, IT, Education, Marketing/PR and Media sectors advertised the highest number of roles requiring or preferring language skills. And it’s not just business and the corporate world that require language skills – the report notes that the public sector also advertised for varied language skills.
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