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 | 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...
by cristahazell | Feb 23, 2021 | News
The Guardian newspaper reported on the new Turing Scheme and concerns raised about the impact of the scheme focusing on the UK trade agenda and the impact this might have on the study of modern languages at university level. To read the article in full, click...
by cristahazell | Feb 22, 2021 | ALL News, Celebration, News, North East, Primary events, Secondary events
Steven Fawkes, Chair of ALLNE, writes Back in the 1990s , long before lockdown and online and Brexit, ALL’s sister charity was the Festival of Languages (and Young Linguists Award) which did what that title suggests; there was a biennial...