A new report from the British Council with forewords from Sir Ciarán Devane, Chief Executive of the British Council and David Laws, Chief Executive of the Education Policy Institute, this new report comes in two parts; Part 1. Schools that are beating the odds....
Theme: Current initiatives concerning Languages Background: This is an overview of initiatives ALL members are aware of currently; some emerge from the several papers published in March 2019 (as reported in Briefing 7: ‘Live language learning issues’). APPG (All...
A report, published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) published a report citing that only 32% of young people in the UK say they are able to read or write in more than one language, compared with 79% of their peers in France and more than 90% in Germany....
Schools Project on Poland is an educational project led by Project Polish Ltd (company number 11666161), a non-profit making company, dedicated to support students and teachers across the country. The project aims to promote the heritage of past generations and the...
I really enjoyed my day at the NPLS, meeting lots of other teachers and exhibitors, and an amazing range of talks. What did I learn? Has the event had an impact on my practice? Most definitely a yes from me! I enjoyed the talk by Rachel Hawkes whose work I use at our...
We had a trial Ofsted inspection last year, and languages was picked as a Deep Dive subject. When I was talking to my line manager beforehand, I told him that the first question would be ‘Why German?’ He was sceptical, but I was proved completely right! I think...
