The report derives from two pie charts that depict the percentage of languages that British college students can speak, in two different years, 2000 and 2010.
Overall, what is notable from the charts is that monolinguals had the largest proportion in both years. There was also a slight increase in percentage of trilinguals and speakers of other languages, as well as a small decline in number of French and Spanish speakers.
To begin, in 2000, less than a third (30%) of university students could speak only British, which is double the number of undergraduates who were able to speak French or another language. Turning to Spanish speakers, they were the second biggest group, accounting for 20% of the total.
In 2010, percentage of monolingual students experienced a slight growth by 5%, with a rate of 35% at the end of the year. There was also a significant fall in a number of graduates who could speak Spanish or French, by 10% and 5%, respectively.