The funding we have received in the last two cycles has facilitated many key initiatives to support French language program implementation and expansion, including: the establishment of a late French immersion program; new elementary school French immersion programs; two sites in which French immersion students receive extra supports in specialized classrooms; the establishment of an exemplary French resource centre; and a French international examination centre with over 3,500 students receiving international credentialling for their French proficiency, many with very high proficiency levels.

We must avoid negative trends, rightly condemned by a group of many French university professors at the Jean Bodin University Monitoring Centre, in certain Community education programmes, particularly the Jean Monnet Chairs; in spite of their obvious educational value, the latter sometimes fulfil an ideological propaganda function that is no less obvious, a function naturally incompatible with the normal performance of teachers’ tasks.

At this press conference Mr Gollnisch discussed - according to his own statement of 20 June 2005 - topics including the so-called "Rousso report", a report commissioned by the French Minister of Education concerning the political views of the academics of Lyon III University, where Mr Gollnisch is Professor of Japanese language and civilisation.

Our assistants’ French teachers declared that they no longer wished to teach Nazis and school exchange programmes were cancelled.

(c) mobility of limited duration, including immersion courses, for language teachers, staff retraining as language teachers, qualified teachers intending soon to return to employment as language teachers, and teaching staff of other disciplines required or wishing to teach in a foreign language.

Much of this money is used for programs such as French immersion, which has in itself been called into question by several noted scholars, including Professor Hammerly of Simon Fraser University.