Less-widely Taught Languages in UK Higher Education

Although the AULC-UCML annual surveys have been conducted since 2012, they do not focus on LWTLs and the number of participating institutions changes every year therefore the data is only partial.The UCML report (Polisca, 2016) on LWTLs only concerns degree level programmes and since it was conducted eight years ago, the findings are no longer up to date.The main sources of our discussion in this paper lie in three LWTLs surveys (Drobnik-Rogers and Torres, 2019, 2023, 2024) that were designed to get a better understanding of the field.The first two