I teach at an inner London comprehensive and our most able students take on Japanese in Year 9 as a second language. It is life-changing for them. Many students have visited Japan and broadened their horizons in a way that many wouldn't believe possible. Japanese A level must stay - in % terms it has the highest retention rate from GCSE of any A level at our school.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
I teach at an inner London comprehensive and our most able students take on Japanese in Year 9 as a second language. It is life-changing for them. Many students have visited Japan and broadened their horizons in a way that many wouldn't believe possible. Japanese A level must stay - in % terms it has the highest retention rate from GCSE of any A level at our school.
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Ai Osaki
11 years ago
Please keep Japanese A Level.
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Hannie Knox
11 years ago
A level Japanese is what inspired me to continue the language. I am now at Oxford university continuing my studies. Without the A level I would not have met, and been able to comunicate with as many amazing people. Why deny others the opportunity to study a rich and amazing language?
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Anonymous
11 years ago
keep Japanese a level please!
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Save Japanese Language!
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MICHIKO INOUE
11 years ago
I believe Japanese class will be very useful for UK Students who are interested about Japan . Japanese economic will improve more than now, please don't take a chance to Japanese . It will be very useful and good communication between UK and Japan.
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Callum Watson
11 years ago
I did Japanese GCSE but didn't have the option of doing A level. I did subsequently live in Japan. It taught me that Japan actually has so much in common with the UK - surely this is the point of learning Japanese.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Japan is especially pertinent in the modern day as a powerhouse nation. It is imperative to make young students aware of the country and the opportunities they can take to learn more about the country.
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Ottilia Stephens
11 years ago
I never had the chance to do an A-level in Japanese but had it been available at my collage I certainly would have taken it. I studied Japanese at university and I'm preparing to start my job as CIR for the JET programme in Japan from August. I've personally got amazing things from studying Japanese and I think the A-level subject should be kept.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Please do keep Japanese A level.
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Lauren
11 years ago
Japanese A-Level hugely affected my life. It was fun, challenging, and helped me discover so much about a wonderful place. I head out there soon, and will be putting my skills to the test!
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Japanese is an important international language for reasons of cultural exchange, business and scientific communication. Young peopel in the UK should be encouraged to study this language. The availability of an A level in Japanese is an incentive.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Please keep Japanese exams.
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jane cannell
11 years ago
Grandson has so benefit from his Japanese studies
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Keep Languages Alive!
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Nick Stebbings
11 years ago
I am a maths teacher with no involvement with languages at the school. However i think this is a ridiculous decision and cant be allowed to go ahead. To educate students in a country such as ours we must offer the students as many opportunities as possible and be looking to broaden the curriculum nor narrow it.
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Anne Campbell
11 years ago
I feel that an A Level qualification in Japanese is essential to maintain a broad-based language curriculum in schools in the UK
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Sophie Korvin
11 years ago
I am teacher of Japanese at Whitgift School and we have been offering Japanese to our pupils for over 20 years. We have around three hundred pupils learning Japanese throughout the school, and a thriving cohort of pupils at GCSE and in our Sixth Form who are passionate about Japanese, and maintaining the A level examination is also crucial to ensuring that our uptake at GCSE level continues. If we are unable to offer long-term opportunities to study Japanese - at A Level - to our pupils and their parents this will have a significant impact on the number of pupils who choose to study Japanese in all age groups.
The opportunity to study Japanese is highly valued among our students and we have a successful exchange programme with Urawa High School in Saitama prefecture, Japan, with whom we run a language exchange every two years, and a cultural visit in the intervening year. In 2014 we celebrated the twenty year anniversary of this exchange. Pupils in years 10, 11, 12 and 13 take part in this programme, which broadens their horizons and cultural sensitivity. This is surely important preparation for pupils who will be working in a global world and interacting with colleagues from around the world in the future. If as we predict the number of pupils studying Japanese falls as a result of your decision, this relationship, which has been nurtured over twenty years, will sadly cease.
I urge you to reconsider your decision and to continue to produce the Japanese A level, for the reasons given above.
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Beth Gammage-Brown
11 years ago
Studying Japanese was of the few things I enjoyed in the education system and I plan to study it again. Removing it is a foolish thing to do. There are other courses that could be done with axing.
I teach at an inner London comprehensive and our most able students take on Japanese in Year 9 as a second language. It is life-changing for them. Many students have visited Japan and broadened their horizons in a way that many wouldn't believe possible. Japanese A level must stay - in % terms it has the highest retention rate from GCSE of any A level at our school.
I teach at an inner London comprehensive and our most able students take on Japanese in Year 9 as a second language. It is life-changing for them. Many students have visited Japan and broadened their horizons in a way that many wouldn't believe possible. Japanese A level must stay - in % terms it has the highest retention rate from GCSE of any A level at our school.
Please keep Japanese A Level.
A level Japanese is what inspired me to continue the language. I am now at Oxford university continuing my studies. Without the A level I would not have met, and been able to comunicate with as many amazing people. Why deny others the opportunity to study a rich and amazing language?
keep Japanese a level please!
Save Japanese Language!
I believe Japanese class will be very useful for UK Students who are interested about Japan . Japanese economic will improve more than now, please don't take a chance to Japanese . It will be very useful and good communication between UK and Japan.
I did Japanese GCSE but didn't have the option of doing A level. I did subsequently live in Japan. It taught me that Japan actually has so much in common with the UK - surely this is the point of learning Japanese.
Japan is especially pertinent in the modern day as a powerhouse nation. It is imperative to make young students aware of the country and the opportunities they can take to learn more about the country.
I never had the chance to do an A-level in Japanese but had it been available at my collage I certainly would have taken it. I studied Japanese at university and I'm preparing to start my job as CIR for the JET programme in Japan from August. I've personally got amazing things from studying Japanese and I think the A-level subject should be kept.
Please do keep Japanese A level.
Japanese A-Level hugely affected my life. It was fun, challenging, and helped me discover so much about a wonderful place. I head out there soon, and will be putting my skills to the test!
Japanese is an important international language for reasons of cultural exchange, business and scientific communication. Young peopel in the UK should be encouraged to study this language. The availability of an A level in Japanese is an incentive.
Please keep Japanese exams.
Grandson has so benefit from his Japanese studies
Keep Languages Alive!
I am a maths teacher with no involvement with languages at the school. However i think this is a ridiculous decision and cant be allowed to go ahead. To educate students in a country such as ours we must offer the students as many opportunities as possible and be looking to broaden the curriculum nor narrow it.
I feel that an A Level qualification in Japanese is essential to maintain a broad-based language curriculum in schools in the UK
I am teacher of Japanese at Whitgift School and we have been offering Japanese to our pupils for over 20 years. We have around three hundred pupils learning Japanese throughout the school, and a thriving cohort of pupils at GCSE and in our Sixth Form who are passionate about Japanese, and maintaining the A level examination is also crucial to ensuring that our uptake at GCSE level continues. If we are unable to offer long-term opportunities to study Japanese - at A Level - to our pupils and their parents this will have a significant impact on the number of pupils who choose to study Japanese in all age groups. The opportunity to study Japanese is highly valued among our students and we have a successful exchange programme with Urawa High School in Saitama prefecture, Japan, with whom we run a language exchange every two years, and a cultural visit in the intervening year. In 2014 we celebrated the twenty year anniversary of this exchange. Pupils in years 10, 11, 12 and 13 take part in this programme, which broadens their horizons and cultural sensitivity. This is surely important preparation for pupils who will be working in a global world and interacting with colleagues from around the world in the future. If as we predict the number of pupils studying Japanese falls as a result of your decision, this relationship, which has been nurtured over twenty years, will sadly cease. I urge you to reconsider your decision and to continue to produce the Japanese A level, for the reasons given above.
Studying Japanese was of the few things I enjoyed in the education system and I plan to study it again. Removing it is a foolish thing to do. There are other courses that could be done with axing.