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Just 7,000 British teenagers studied A-level French this year, says The Sunday Times, down from 22,700 in 1996. Partly as so many French teachers left the UK after Brexit, but also a wider trend in which kids are shunning languages and arts in favour of those they feel will lead to well-paid careers. More than 101,000 students sat maths A-level this year, for example, while 76,130 took psychology and 43,410 did history. French fell out of the top 10 way back in 1997, and is now down to 25th.
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