Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 16. July 16 1979
What Further Cuts would Mean to Italian and Spanish
What Further Cuts would Mean to Italian and Spanish
The situation is at least refreshingly clear. We are a staff of three teaching a major in Italian and a 6-credit course in Spanish. If the departmental grant is further reduced (the annual grant to Italian is now less than $400, that is less than $5 per student per year), if tutorial assistance is further cut, and if Lawrence Simmon's junior lectureship is frozen next year, Italian will cease to be a majoring subject and Spanish will possibly disappear altogether. (Particularly from talking with teachers in schools, I am convinced Spanish is, with Maori, potentially the biggest growth area of any language).