Sharp decline in Indonesian uptake at school sparks alarm

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published April 29, 2021

The future of Bahasa Indonesia language learning in Australian schools is a scarily precarious one, according to Hamish Curry, executive director of the Asia Education Foundation (AEF) at the University of Melbourne.

The AEF BRIDGE School Partnerships program has been linking Australian teachers and students with schools in Indonesia in a bid to enrich intercultural understanding, enhance professional learning for teachers and forge connections among students.

Enduring trends that show an ever-dwindling student uptake of the language in secondary schools, compounded by a chronic staffing shortfall ...

This story appeared in the May 2021 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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