Educational institutions are failing children and limiting Scotland's economy with an inadequate provision of foreign language teaching, international experts say.
Foreign language assistants in schools have dropped by over three-quarters in seven years, college provision is "woeful" and universities are closing language schools when Scotland is trying to grow its exports and expand into diverse international markets, MSPs were told.
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