by Wendy Newman | Feb 14, 2011 | News
ALL has recently established a new Special Interest Group intending to take forward issues relating to the wider group of languages learnt in the UK (those which might be termed Community Languages or World Languages). Our hope is to work with other associations and...
by Wendy Newman | Feb 11, 2011 | News
The Commons Select Committee on Education has announced a new inquiry and call for evidence into the English Baccalaureate. The Education Committee is announcing a short inquiry into the English Baccalaureate (E-Bac), and want to hear from individuals about: the...
by Wendy Newman | Feb 4, 2011 | News
Dear colleague There has been a lot of uncertainty about future funding for primary languages. We now know that the existing grant is to be devolved to schools from April. The interesting thing is that in the funding settlement the primary languages grant is...
by Wendy Newman | Feb 2, 2011 | News
The Department for Education published the 2010 performance tables for GCSEs, A Levels and equivalent qualifications yesterday. The figures show: the overall number of five GCSE (or iGCSE or equivalent) passes at A* to C including English and mathematics has increased...
by Wendy Newman | Feb 2, 2011 | News
The Coalition Government has set out further details of plans to overhaul England’s schools system in its Education Bill: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12287022 &...
by Wendy Newman | Feb 2, 2011 | News
The results of the latest Language Trends survey of secondary schools show that the number of students choosing to take a language at 14 is still in decline and that the amount of language teaching offered at key stage 3 is also falling. The findings, based on a...
