by cristahazell | Mar 9, 2021 | News
Modern Foreign Language teachers will have a greater opportunity to come to the UK following changes announced to immigration rules by the Home Office and UK Visas and Immigration. Rule changes have taken place to make it easier to recruit modern foreign language...
by cristahazell | Mar 9, 2021 | Corporate Member News, Language News, News
Express Yourself in Lockdown, Spring 2021 This year’s Celebration of Speaking is now over, but you can still take a / listen look at how people have celebrated by putting into Twitter Search #CelebrateSpeaking. You’ll find there some of the contributions to...
by cristahazell | Feb 25, 2021 | Teacher Briefings
Theme: Outcomes of OFQUAL / DfE Consultation on how GCSE, AS and A-level grades should be awarded in Summer 2021 Background: A consultation (See Briefing 27) was carried out in January 2021. The rationale for proposing changes to traditional exams was this: Given...
by cristahazell | Feb 25, 2021 | News
Universities say they have received inadequate guidance on red tape and costs for academic years abroad according to a report in The Guardian. Thousands of UK students hoping to spend the year abroad are caught in limbo after facing major disruption to their travel...
by cristahazell | Feb 25, 2021 | German Discussions, German Network, German News, News
The Guardian has reported about a linguist who compiled list of words says they help tell story of life during pandemic. From coronamüde (tired of Covid-19) to Coronafrisur (corona hairstyle), a German project is documenting the huge number of new words coined in the...