The latest National Statistics on Modern Foreign Languages in Schools in Wales produced by the Welsh Assembly Government.

The key points from the latest release are:

• The percentage of 15 year olds entering at least one GCSE in a modern foreign language has fallen each year, from 41 per cent in 1999 to 28 per cent in 2007.
• The proportion of GCSE entries in modern foreign languages resulting in grades A*-C was 76 per cent in 2007 compared with 67 per cent in 1999.
• In 2007, 68 per cent of entries in modern foreign languages at GCSE level were in French compared to 73 per cent in 1999, whilst Spanish has seen an increase, with 5 per cent of entries in modern foreign languages in 1999 rising to 12 per cent in 2007.
• The proportion of A level entries in modern foreign languages resulting in grades A-C was 78 per cent in 2007 compared with 70 per cent in 2001.
• In 2007, 63 per cent of entries in modern foreign languages at A level were in French compared to 64 per cent in 2001.

The bulletin can be downloaded from the Statistics for Wales website.