by cristahazell | Oct 14, 2020 | ALL News, Corporate Member News, Discussion Area, Language News, News, Secondary News, Teacher Briefings
Theme: GCSE Languages 2021 Background: OFQUAL was tasked by the Secretary of State with mitigating the impact of the pandemic on schooling in the academic years 2019-20 and 2020-21. For Languages the major recommendation was to make the spoken language assessment an...
by cristahazell | Sep 2, 2020 | ALL News, Corporate Member, News, What's New
Introducing Prof Kim Bower, ALL‘s President. The President sits on the Association’s board of trustees, its Management Board, which comprises two elected Officers: Honorary Membership Officer and President and up to five invited Trustees. Kim will assume the...
by cristahazell | Aug 20, 2020 | ALL News, French Discussions, German Discussions, News, Secondary, Secondary News, What's New
Dear Prof Koglbauer and Ms Harvey, Thank you for your email to Sally Collier and Roger Taylor, and my apologies for the delay in responding to you. I am responding on their behalf. Prior to the summer, we announced that we would make an adjustment to the...
by cristahazell | Aug 19, 2020 | ALL News, Consultations, Discussion Area, French Discussions, German Discussions, Language News, News, Secondary, Secondary News, What's New
As you are aware, ALL wrote to OFQUAL on Monday to ask how the 2% adjustment to French and German GCSE results would be applied to Centre Assessment grades. We have had a reply which you can read here. In the meantime, we wanted to share with you two documents...
by cristahazell | Aug 18, 2020 | ALL News, French Discussions, German Discussions, Language News, News, Secondary News, What's New
ALL have written to Sally Collier and Roger Taylor at Ofqual with regard to severe grading measures in GCSE French and German. Read the letter in full here: ALL_Ofqual_SevereGrading2020 We look forward to their statement in response and shall share this with you...
by cristahazell | Aug 13, 2020 | ALL News, Language News, News, Secondary News, What's New
ALL President Jane Harvey comments on this year’s results: “I would like to congratulate all A and AS-level language students and their teachers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on their results in this exceptional year. A level language courses require not...
by cristahazell | Aug 2, 2020 | ALL News, Language News, News, What's New
Report from: Internationalism Alliance webinar hosted by the British Council and The Prince’s Trust Monday 20th July 2020 The mission of the Alliance is to ensure that internationalism is interwoven in every young person’s education, life and experiences...
by cristahazell | Jul 22, 2020 | ALL Event, ALL Language, ALL Local, ALL News, Competitions, East Anglia, East Midlands, London, News, North East, North East Event, North West, Northern Ireland, Online Event, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, What's New, Yorkshire & Humber
Poetry in other languages celebration – pilot 2020 This is a spin-off from the competition (Strictly Speaking) which ALLNE had planned to pilot this year in the region and which was not possible in the circumstances. It targets Year 8 students in the hope of...
by cristahazell | Jul 8, 2020 | ALL News, Corporate Member News, Discussion Area, Language News, News, Secondary News, What's New
PRESS RELEASE: July 8, 2020 Towards a National Languages Strategy: Education and Skills The Association for Language Learning (ALL) welcomes the proposals put forward in the new report from the British Academy and partners “Towards a National Languages...
by cristahazell | Jul 1, 2020 | ALL News, Corporate Member, Corporate Member News, Discussion Area, Language News, News, Teacher Briefings, What's New
Theme: Language Trends 2020 Background: The annual Language Trends report was published here in late June: https://www.britishcouncil.org/research-policy-insight/research-reports/language-trends-2020 Key messages: We have extracted here some of the key findings of...
by cristahazell | May 12, 2020 | ALL Local, ALL News, Language News, News, North East, Other Event, What's New
At a time when Language learning and cultural diversity in England are again under pressure it is nice to hear of projects that are championing an international ethos for personal, social and economic purposes. The city of Newcastle has set up International Newcastle...
by cristahazell | May 11, 2020 | ALL Local, ALL News, French Zone, Language News, News, North East, Secondary News
I just wanted to get in touch with you to say a huge thank you to ALL, ALLNE staff and volunteers especially Steven Fawkes and René Koglbauer-Franklin for the incredible support we have been receiving as we develop our Newcastle City of Languages initiative. In terms...
