In response to this announcement, a very short notice demo was organised, to which about thirty students, and a small contingent of the local Capoeira group, Grupo Senzala turned up to show their support.

Hopefully this will hearald the start of an ongoing campaign against this madness, which is set in the context of many foreign language departments across the country closing or being threatened with closure, along with adult learning courses (night classes) in foreign languages also seeming to be a threatened species.

All the more ironic when you consider that we are now as a population, more mobile than ever around the EU, so you might ask what's going on?!

Further reading:
 http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,825611,00.html