Olga Gomez-Cash | Lancaster University

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Olga Gomez-Cash is Head of Department and Senior Teaching Fellow in Spanish in the Department of Languages and Cultures.

Now students are expected to study a language until age 16, the work to rebuild begins

The government’s decision that all pupils will now have to study a language GCSE as part of the English Baccalureate (EBacc) could be the moment when languages are restored to their rightful esteem in England – but there is still work to be done to ensure that.