Graham Watson - Liberal Democrat MEP for South-West England and Gibraltar

MEP welcomes Chinese Language Assistants to the UK

9.32.00am BST (GMT +0100) Wed 19th Sep 2007

Local MEP Graham Watson has welcomed to the UK five Mandarin Chinese teaching assistants from Taiwan who for the next ten months will work in South West schools from Cornwall to South Gloucestershire introducing basic Chinese.

Commenting from the annual Lib Dem Party Conference in Brighton, after the official launch, Graham said:

Graham welcomes Taiwanese assistants and school representatives from South West schools to London

Graham welcomes to London five Chinese assistants and representatives from South West schools

"I was delighted to welcome to London the five assistants taking part in the 'Broadening Horizons' project who for the next ten months will be based in the South West. Their enthusiasm and commitment was obvious and I am convinced that they will make a valuable contribution in sowing the seeds for better language teaching in this country."

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