Lenguaje courses are being "dumbed down"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/oct/20/language-degrees-student-numbers


This report comment about lenguaje couses in the university education. The lenguaje courses and the student numbers are decrease in the present. The proportion of students with lenguajes studies have dropped in european countries, for example in England or EU.

The government is accused, because it give more importance to science, technology and engineering subjects than lenguajes learning; and the universities are accused of betraing the discipline , because this are changing lenguaje courses with translations or interpretations abouth "cultural studies", or with other subjest abouth studies abouth others topics.

The Spanish, Italian and Mandarin courses are loosing them popularity in students, more student also opten for lenguaje couses out to the univertity, in subsidiary courses.