by cristahazell | May 11, 2026 | Language News, News, Primary News, Secondary News
Experts warn this is ‘not a time for scaling back’ recruitment tactics, and criticise surprise mid-year change. Ministers have been blasted for axing bursaries for overseas applicants hoping to become trainee physics and languages teachers without...
by cristahazell | May 11, 2026 | News
Gender-neutral GCSE French lessons trigger international row British exam board to allow 16-year-olds to use newly coined hybrid pronouns in languages, despite terms not being recognised by countries. “The use of gender-neutral terms in GCSE French lessons has...
by cristahazell | Apr 29, 2026 | HHCL news, News
How Romanian became Britain’s second most spoken foreign language The Romanian community in the UK is now a million strong, yet while pupils can sit GCSEs in everything from Urdu to Portuguese and Biblical Hebrew, this vast cohort remains overlooked, with no formal...
by cristahazell | Apr 19, 2026 | Language News, News
We’re not teaching them to order baguettes’ – languages enjoy a renaissance in schools. When Hugo signed up for a project to help him decide if he wanted to study French at GCSE, he had no idea it would lead him to learn Mandarin. The Year 10 pupil...
by cristahazell | Feb 18, 2026 | News
UK Government’s proposed changes to the immigration system. In February 2026 the Coalition for Language Education published a response to the UK Parliament Call for Evidence (3795) on the UK Government’s proposed changes to the immigration system. The response can...
