More British students ‘to study abroad’

British students are to be offered up to two years at universities abroad amid Government warnings that poor language skills are crippling graduates’ job prospects. David Willetts said more British students should do degrees in countries such as India to...

Careers Improved Through Language Learning

In a recent poll of 500 companies, one in four said the ability to speak a second language would give a candidate the edge when applying for a job. In addition, when describing what makes a candidate more employable, companies ranked knowledge of a foreign language...

Editorship of Deutsch: Lehren und Lernen

Uta Smail intends to step down from the editorship of Deutsch: Lehren und Lernen, and we hope to appoint a new editor to work with her on the spring 2011 issue and take over in autumn 2011. Applications for the editorship are now invited. The main duties of the editor...

Results of the 4th ALL Russian Essay Competition

The organisers were overwhelmed by the number of entrants: this year 186 candidates from all education sectors sent us their work! The standard of many entries was outstanding. The Russian committee would like to thank  all participants and their teachers for...