GCSE Results The headlines Overall, there is a smaller cohort of 16 yr olds this year (down 2.1% to 689,000 in 2014). There has also been a decline in the number of GCSE entries in general (down 4.2%), partly in favour of iGCSE. This year has seen some major changes...
Connecting up language learning around the country ALL has received funding from the Department for Education to provide CPD on the new curriculum for teachers in KS2 and KS3. The ALL Connect project will operate initially in the North East, East Anglia and the North...
The headlines At A Level, results remain relatively stable in general, with a slight decline in the pass rate overall, but with the proportion of A* grades awarded rising slightly by 0.6%. Students are increasingly choosing ‘Facilitating Subjects’,...
HEFCE reports drop in uptake of Modern Languages A recent report by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) shows a sharp decline in the number of applicants to study modern languages in higher educaton. Though numbers have been in decline since 2002,...
A summary of Languages Today magazine content in 2013/14. Autumn 2013 This issue was about language and identity… We reported on disappearing languages around the world and the UK’s changing linguistic identity. We investigated a project empowering...
