🚨Save Languages at the University of Essex 🚨 #langsky #linguistics

UoE plans to cut German, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese + all evening classes and merge Language and Linguistics with a larger unit. Only 2 languages will remain next October. Please sign our letter:

tinyurl.com/SaveLingLangEssex

March 12, 2026 - 17:30 UTC

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These cuts are devastating for our current staff & students but they also incredibly regressive — pushing education in languages and linguistics further out of reach for most students in the UK. We are the only uni in the southeast of England offering our range of languages (except Cambridge).
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Language & Linguistics is one of the founding units of the University of Essex and was part of the much-invoked ‘spirit of Essex’ in our marketing. Removing our autonomy and cutting our programmes is, among so many things, just really, really sad and a loss for applied linguistics.
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English people are already so well versed in foreign languages that they clearly do not need more.
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literally part of the ‘argument’ for these cuts nationally tends to be ‘not enough students take languages at A level’ — maybe that’s because they’re not offered and maybe university is not Big School and sometimes students want to expand their skills and knowledge there
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