Want to boost your employability by adding a language to your degree? Not taken a language before? Come to our Year 12 Languages from Scratch taster day and see how you could take it at degree level with no prior language experience
If you are set to study Business, Economics, English, History or Politics, consider including a language in your course. It’s a great way to diversify your skills and thus maximise your job opportunities, as well as opening the door to whole new worlds for you to explore.
The ability to communicate across cultures, to understand not just foreign words, but unfamiliar ideas, viewpoints, and approaches, is enriching, satisfying, creative, and sought-after by employers.
Britain has a language gap which costs the economy up to 3.5% of GDP each year. German, French and Spanish are the top in-demand European languages for employers across a wide range of sectors, from management, recruitment and sales to education, marketing and banking. Graduates who speak another language distinguish themselves, are attractive to employers and often earn more money.
If you wish you had kept going with a language in school, this is your chance to try out learning a language at university. Our Beginners Languages Taster Day offers the opportunity to try out languages from scratch in a fun, supportive small-group learning environment and to understand how a joint degree with Business, Economics, English, History or Politics works.