ACT students risk losing access to senior secondary language courses because of gaps in the public school system, a Legislative Assembly committee has found.
This week, the Standing Committee on Social Policy released its report into an e-petition that asked the ACT Government to replicate Year 11–12 ATAR language courses previously offered through the Canberra Academy of Languages and CIT Solutions.
“ACT students do not have the continuous language pathways that allow them to develop deep language fluency and competency,” committee chair Thomas Emerson MLA said.
Eleven languages — Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, Auslan, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish — were taught in ACT public schools in 2025.
Read the article here: https://canberradaily.com.au/act-students-face-gaps-in-senior-language-courses/