Community Language Schools Community language school (CLS) programs are administered by incorporated not-for-profit organisations, which are accredited for funding by the Department of Education and Training (DET). Community language schools provide Languages education programs that are complementary to those provided by mainstream schools and the Victorian School of Languages (VSL). Community language schools provide programs to students from Foundation to Year 12 (depending on the language) outside mainstream school hours; i.e. after school or on weekends. In 2015, 170 accredited community language schools in Victoria offered Languages programs in 41 languages to 35,154 primary and secondary students (as funded by DET). Table 8.1 provides community language school enrolments at the primary and secondary level, by language. Table 8.1: Accredited community language school enrolments by language, and total enrolments, 2015 Total Language enrolments Acholi Otuho 19 42 Arabic Persian 2,632 242 Armenian Polish 131 203 Assyrian Punjabi 163 156 Bengali Romanian 287 18 Chinese (Mandarin) Russian 11,903 513 Croatian Serbian 71 319 Danish Shona/Ndebele 44 61 Dari Sinhala 440 845 Dinka Slovak 211 44 Filipino Somali 51 888 German Spanish 273 84 Greek Swedish 6,169 166 Harari Tamil 145 759 Hebrew Thai 164 86 Hungarian Tigrinya 86 78 Italian Turkish 526 285 Japanese Ukrainian 546 93 Khmer Vietnamese 27 6,076 Korean 175 Total 35,154 Latvian 39 Oromo 94
Community Language Schools Community language school (CLS) programs are administered by incorporated not-for-profit organisations, which are accredited for funding by the Department of Education and Training (DET). Community language schools provide Languages education programs that are complementary to those provided by mainstream schools and the Victorian School of Languages (VSL). Community language schools provide programs to students from Foundation to Year 12 (depending on the language) outside mainstream school hours; i.e. after school or on weekends. In 2015, 170 accredited community language schools in Victoria offered Languages programs in 41 languages to 35,154 primary and secondary students (as funded by DET). Table 8.1 provides community language school enrolments at the primary and secondary level, by language. Table 8.1: Accredited community language school enrolments by language, and total enrolments, 2015 Language Total enrolments Acholi 19 Arabic 2,632 Armenian 131 Assyrian 163 Bengali 287 Chinese (Mandarin) 11,903 Croatian 71 Danish 44 Dari 440 Dinka 211 Filipino 51 German 273 Greek 6,169 Harari 145 Hebrew 164 Hungarian 86 Italian 526 Japanese 546 Khmer 27 Korean 175 Latvian 39 Oromo 94 Otuho 42 Persian 242 Polish 203 Punjabi 156 Romanian 18 Russian 513 Serbian 319 Shona/Ndebele 61 Sinhala 845 Slovak 44 Somali 888 Spanish 84 Swedish 166 Tamil 759 Thai 86 Tigrinya 78 Turkish 285 Ukrainian 93 Vietnamese 6,076 Total 35,154