Leading UK universities are looking at merging their language courses to prevent department closures due to a sharp fall in the number of young people studying the subjects.
The N8 consortium of research-led universities in the north of England, which includes Durham, Lancaster, Manchester and Newcastle, has held discussions over closer collaboration to share resources and best practice amid?funding concerns caused by a decline in language students.
Professor Nigel Harkness, deputy vice-chancellor at Newcastle University, told the Financial Times that the eight institutions had begun “initial scoping” of their modern languages offerings, highlighting the absence of a national body overseeing subject provision across UK universities.
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