As of October 2013, the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages will suspend the teaching of Modern Greek as a full Tripos language on financial grounds. If the proposed changes go ahead, no student will emerge from Cambridge with any more than a cursory knowledge of Modern Greek language and culture. Cambridge is one of only three universities in the United Kingdom which offer a full undergraduate degree course with a specialisation in Modern Greek.
If you feel strongly about this, or the future of any small department, please sign the petition below and pass it on to as many people as possible. Now, more than ever, we must not lose Modern Greek within our Universities.
Semele Assinder
Macmillan-Rodewald Student, British School at Athens.
