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Urdu Launch and Celebration Day’ at Manchester Metropolitan University for Year 10 – 13 pupils on Wednesday 25th March, 10am - 2pm.
The Department of Languages, Information and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University is delighted to announce the launch of a suite of undergraduate programmes that comprise the study of Urdu, starting in September 2015
To celebrate this we have organised an ‘Urdu Launch and Celebration Day’ at Manchester Metropolitan University for Year 10 – 13 pupils on Wednesday 25th March, 10am - 2pm. The day will comprise of pupil workshops in the morning ran by Qaisra Shahraz, who is a British-Pakistani novelist and scriptwriter and Sheraz Ali (Lecturer at the University of Manchester) with live performances in the afternoon.
This new development will make MMU the first Higher Education Institution in the UK to offer students the possibility to study Urdu to degree level, and to have Urdu acknowledged in their degree title. It will enable students to get an academic qualification in a language spoken by close to 100 million people around the world, and in countries that are important trade partners of the United Kingdom.
Urdu, which is the official language of Pakistan alongside English, is also spoken in India, in the Middle East, in Canada, and in the USA. In the UK, the Urdu-speaking community numbers about four hundred thousand people, not only in the North West (particularly in and around Manchester, Leeds and Bradford), but also in the West Midlands, in various areas of London, and in parts of Scotland. Urdu is offered in UK schools at GCSE and A level, and there are on an average of 5000 pupils taking GCSE and 500 taking A level exams every year. Up to now there was no opportunity to take the study of Urdu higher than secondary school.
Routes NW is delighted to announce this event to launch Urdu.
There is a small charge of £5 per pupil (accompanying teachers are free).
Places are limited; please return booking forms by no later than by Monday 16th March.
