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LONDON (AFP) - Education campaigners in Britain condemned a new course allowing would-be French teachers to learn the language from scratch in just 13 weeks before being unleashed into classrooms. 'It is utterly ridiculous,' said Nick Seaton, chairman of traditionalist pressure group the Campaign for Real Education, calling the scheme 'a sticking plaster solution to a massive shortage of language teachers'. The course is designed to counter the fact that all language teachers in British schools are expected to know and be able to teach French as well as another language, which puts off many aspiring educators. The Teacher Training Agency at Hull University, northeast England, has launched a two-year pilot scheme, titled: 'Voulez-vous parler francais? - then become a modern language teacher!' Would-be linguists, many of whom cannot speak a word of French before the course, spend 13 weeks learning the language intensively, including a two-week residential spell in France.
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