UK universities instructed to maintain language studies</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="UK universities instructed to maintain language studies"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="UK,universities,instructed,to,maintain,language,studies"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">02-12-2004</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>UK universities instructed to maintain language studies</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Edinburgh, UK (The Scotsman): The British Education Secretary Charles Clarke moved today to stop universities from removing subjects such as Arabic studies from their syllabus. Mr Clarke said language studies were of “national importance” and needed protection for reasons of “strategic security and inter-cultural awareness”. <br>Studies in Arabic, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese, Mandarin and other far eastern languages and area studies were also to be maintained for business and trade purposes. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3828546 " target="blank">news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3828546 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show