The Romanian community in the UK is now a million strong, yet while pupils can sit GCSEs in everything from Urdu to Portuguese and Biblical Hebrew, this vast cohort remains overlooked, with no formal exams able to be taken in Romanian. It’s got to change, argues Tessa Dunlop
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The Romanian community in the UK is now a million strong, yet while pupils can sit GCSEs in everything from Urdu to Portuguese and Biblical Hebrew, this vast cohort remains overlooked, with no formal exams able to be taken in Romanian. It’s got to change, argues Tessa Dunlop
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