Bid to double number of Gaelic speakers 10/10/11
The number of children with Gaelic has to double to allow the language to survive.
A new drive to encourage twice as many children into Gaelic medium education is a fundamental aim of Bòrd na Gàidhlig’s national plan to save the tongue.
The body wants the number of infants entering P1 Gaelic medium education to rise from 400 today to 800 by 2017.
It says this needs more cash, more teacher training and more teachers to meet parental
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Scotland’s draft Gaelic language plan which is out to consultation aims to continue the growth of young people speaking Gaelic and reach replacement level by 2031.