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Which bands have the biggest vocabularies?
Testing this for mobile.
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UK pupils learn fewer languages than any others in Europe
A couple of weeks ago the Telegraph reportedΒ on Department of Education figures showing that pupils in UK schools who spoke English as a second language were outperforming those who were native speakers.
One comment fromΒ Baroness Coussins stood out. She said that the βpresence in schools of children who are bilingual or have English as an additional language tends, in fact, to raise overall school performance at GCSE, not damage itβ.
So on the back of the Department for Education's figures it would seem that learning foreign languages will improve general academic performance as well as bringing with it the traditional benefits of being multi-lingual.
But how does the UK compare to otherΒ EuropeanΒ countries for teaching foreignΒ languagesΒ to its students?
In a word, poorly.
The chart above shows rankings based on statistics from Eurostat for the number of languages learned by pupils in different European countries in two different age categories.
ISCED2 equates to lower secondary school level (i.e. years 7-9) and ISCED3 equates to upper secondary level (i.e. years 10 and 11).
In both categories the UK comes last.
The average number of languages learned by pupils in the ISCED2 category is 1 compared with the average of 2.5 languages learned by pupils of the same age group in Luxembourg and 2.1 by pupils in the Netherlands.Β
It's a similar story for ISCED3 where the average number of languages learned by pupils in the UK is 0.6 compared with countries such as Estonia and Romania where the average number of languages learned is 2.
This means that 40% of pupils in the UK do not take a foreign language for their GCSEs.
You can explore the data further in the map below. The blue line in the graph which appears in the info window represents the EU average.
Foreign languages are not compulsory for pupils at GCSE level but maybe they should be.
Happily, though, the Independent reported last year on a rise in the uptake of foreign language GCSEs so things might be headed in a better direction for the UK.
A brief note on the stats
Most of these figures are taken from the year 2012. Where there was no figure for 2012 the figure from 2011 was used instead. This was the case for the UK, Italy, Spain and Sweden.
As with everything in journalism - and life if we want to get all philosophical - plans change. So did ours. In the days prior to Build The News, we focused on designing a campaign platform and centred it around a potential campaign on public health and in particular high levels of sugar...

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Is the football loan system unfair? (Complete with interactive graphics)
I played around with infogr.am to create this story about the unfairness of the football loan system.
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Graph: Album sales have declined more than singles
I used figures from the Official Charts Company website to see how sales in albums and singles have changed since the 1960s.
They don't give figures for album sales so I had a look at the number of weeks each album/single stayed at number 1. The results are displayed below.
The figures for singles, although declining, have not changed as much as album sales. The average number of weeks a single stayed at number 1 peaked at 3.1 in the 70s and has since declined to 1.5 weeks. Whereas the average number of weeks an album spends at number 1 peaked at 4.3 in the 60s and has since declined every decade to 1.4 in the 2010s.
It seems we have become a country that treats its music in a more throw-away manner. Songs come in and out of popularity at a very quick rate.
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Foraying into tooting life with some bingo. http://ift.tt/16tt18d
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I went along to see David Lammy talk to students at BSix college in Hackney about Black History Month today. http://ift.tt/1fIWovR
"The Derek Zoolander School for kids who don't read good and who want to learn to do other things good too."
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Saw this last night and met some of the actors. Really atmospheric. You'll come out of it and see scrap metal everywhere.
Saw Kacey Musgraves at the Shepherds Bush Empire on Sunday. She was great!

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