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Typing French Accented Characters on UK Windows Keyboards

You will need a separate QWERTY keyboard attached to your laptop or desktop for this.

First, make sure that NUM LOCK is on. A green light often shows for this.

 


Typing French accents on a QWERTY keyboard.

Hold down the ALT key


Then on the numeric keypad, type these numbers, please keep holding the ALT key down: 

 

à 133, â 131, ç 135

é 130, è 138, ê 136, ë 137

É 144, î 140, ô 147, œ 0156

ù 151, û 150, « 174, » 175

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Who Studies French in England

One measure of how much the French language is studied in England is to look at the number of candidates entered for the GCSE examinations. These figures are from the UK government Ofqual statistics up to Summer 2026. I have compared them with the number of entries for the English language examination to give an idea of how many students are studying in that year of entry. In percentage terms French has seen a drop from 17.5% to 14.3% against the total students entered for English. 

                               - - - - SUMMER OF YEAR - - - - 
Subject 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
English 719790 754910 807725 825940 844455
French 126185 126560 130650 128155 121040



Series 1 (blue) English Language. Series 2 (orange) French Language


French at A-Level and Beyond

French A level in England has seen a slight increase of 15 candidates from the 2025 summer sitting of 6450 to 6465 in summer 2026. 

Data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) shows total full-time enrolments in French Studies fell from 9680 in 2012 to 3720 in 2023.



 

 




 

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