‘Why should I study Russian?’ Ukraine lobbies UK to introduce Ukrainian GCSE
by Matthew Weaver from World news | The Guardian on (#6T60H)
About 34,000 Ukrainian children have fled to UK since Russian invasion - yet are unable to study their mother tongue
Ukraine is lobbying the UK government to give teenage refugees who fled the war-torn country the chance to study a GCSE in Ukrainian, amid reports they are instead being pressed to study Russian.
Ukraine's education ministry has written to the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, to say it is crucial" to reintroduce a GCSE in Ukrainian.
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