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This petition concerns the UK's provision of language learning, and more specifically the future of the University of Bradford's Department of Languages and European Studies. This department has faced a number of cut-backs in recent years, with recruitment onto Undergraduate courses stopped last year. It has been proposed to halt recruitment to the MA course in Interpreting and Translation. The University of Bradford is one of only five Universities within the UK which offers this course, and yet the University has decided to terminate this valuable course for ‘financial reasons’.

The government has made a number of pledges with regards to language learning, and particularly in higher education. CILT states: ‘We want to play our part in ensuring that our country has access to the language professionals in interpreting and translating that we need…’ If the government really wants to promote language learning, it not only needs to encourage more pupils to take languages at GCSE, but also to support language departments at a higher level. Allowing these departments to close will be detrimental to the government’s long-term language objectives.

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• Khulood Al-Mafarji
• Graham Turner
• Olivia Titchener
• Esther Tallada-Seco
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• Elaine Ellis
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• Thomas Sargent
• Christina Les
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• Professor Diana Holmes
• Neil Whittingham
• Professor John Gaffney (Vice-President AUPHF)
• Elizabeth White
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• Wilma Parkinson
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• Sarah Hunt
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• Anne Croasdell
• Carol Tarrega
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• Paul Green
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• Jack Warr
• Catia Teixeira
• Clare Lord
• david whitlam
• Sarah Wing
• Anne Powling
• Nick Rosenthal
• Mark Buffery
• Yurena Sar (freelance translator)
• Thomas McLeod
• Philippa Hammond
• John Paul Weir
• Ruth Morris
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• Kim Hewitt
• Colin Catt
• Mr Neil Trueman
• Alison Jenner
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• Cheryl Bee
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• Marie Lambert
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• Natasha James
• Rebecca Beard
• Susan Rigby
• Emma-Jane Tritton
• Fiona Cummings
• Robin Macdonald
• Clare O'Keefe
• Cressida Ford
• Caroline Cambas, Translator
• Andrew Shaw
• Serena Dorey
• Laura Liddell
• Ronan Hindle
• Sara Shields
• J RICHARDS
• Daniel Church
• Vanessa Round
• Yolanda Granja-Rubio
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• Jennifer Kilbey
• David Hartley
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• Caroline Venier
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• Thomas Towers
• Adam G. Jones
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• Rob Levy
• Miss Tracy L Reed
• Nick Parker
• Lisa Agostini
• A. Claydon-Wallace
• sally-mae greaves
• Peter Heller
• Janet Agostini
• Rachel Shepherd
• John Kipping
• Hannah Stainer
• Kelly Smith
• Gill Lee
• Mhairi McLINTOCK
• Professor Reggie von Zugbach
• Oliver Boothroyd
• Kayleigh Coutts
• Anna Willemsen
• Saskia Ashton
• Kais Uddin
• Andrew Sims
• Linda Jayne Turner
• Kate Adams
• Christopher Adams
• Sylvia Adams
• Martin Pearce
• Susan Hayes
• Fiona Kaltenborn
• Jessica Scott
• June Lewis
• James Page
• Bettina Bildhauer
• Philippa C.E. Caine
• Christopher Beedham
• Helen Chambers
• Hugh Rorrison
• Dr F. Stintzy
• Megan Roy
• Urno Hing
• Mr C A (Sasha) Clarkson
• Adrian Bint
• Ashok Patel
• Rebekah Darbon
• Sarah Hobart
• Dona van Bloemen
• Luis Fernando Rodriguez Angel
• Jennifer Hill
• Craig Tranter
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