Following Bernd Kopacek’s post, I studied this year’s statistics of the applications to Hungarian higher educational institutions.
I was shocked to learn that 61.3% of applicants haven’t passed a foreign language exam. Only 30% have a medium level certificate, and 7.1% have high level language knowledge. (The source, in Hungarian, is here)
It is sad that these figures refer to university applicants, and not just those who have completed their secondary education.
In my opinion, one result of secondary education should be a strong knowledge of one or preferably two foreign languages. Unfortunately, this is not the current situation in Hungary. The only chance for more than 60% percent of the students is to make up for this deficiency during their university years.
I assume that your country is in a better situation. Could you share some statistics?
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