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The UK education secretary has announced a new 5.5 million dollar programme.
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The Latin excellence programme aims to level up opportunities for students.
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Latin is a language that was spoken in the area around Rome over 2,000 years ago.
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Latin has a reputation as an elitist subject reserved for the privileged few.
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Latin can help pupils with learning modern foreign languages.
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The initiative has sparked a heated debate about the benefits of Latin.
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Ridiculed the programme as being nothing but a poorly funded gimmick.
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People who are guaranteed successful careers thanks to family connections.
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A subject whose only application is understanding the dialogue in ancient books.
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A teacher said money would be better spent on living languages like Chinese.
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