Article: Nurseries should teach English'.

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April 29, 2008
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NURSERY schools should teach English to ease the burden on primaryschools struggling with a huge influx of immigrant children, the Lib- Dems saidyesterday.

Leader Nick Clegg warned that mass immigration was damaging educationalstandards.

He said migrant children take longer to understand lessons and divert theteacher's energies from Englishspeaking classmates.

But he believes primary schools could be helped by encouraging nurseries,pre-school clubs and mother-andbaby groups to teach English.

He said: 'It is daunting for children if little English ...

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