
So you really want to learn Latin (in Florence)?
Did you know that 94% of students in the UK are educated at state schools, and yet only 2.7% of state schools offer Latin at KS3 level? The inequity of access to Latin at secondary school level (and the knock-on impact of this) has received a fair amount of attention in recent years, as evidenced by the recent government pledge to invest £4 million to introduce Latin to 40 new state schools. But what form of Latin is being introduced to schools? Whilst we’re on percentages: 0