From the Press Association, via the Guardian:
An independent college today claimed to have become the first school in England to make Mandarin Chinese a compulsory subject for its pupils.
Richard Cairns, the headmaster of Brighton College, said the move aims to recognise the importance of China as the world’s fastest growing economy.
Mandarin will become part of the core curriculum at the 1,200-pupil college from September. At present the school has only a “handful” of native Chinese students, making the move “all the more radical”, Mr Cairns said.
