by Wendy Newman | Sep 20, 2013 | News
The British Academy is launching a new scheme offering cash awards to secondary schools across the UK who can demonstrate innovative and creative language teaching. This is an opportunity both to promote the learning of languages, and to enhance and reward teaching...
by Wendy Newman | Sep 20, 2013 | News
UCAS has recently released their final application figures for 2012 University entry. There has been an overall decrease of 7.4%, but this figure conceals differences across countries, ages and disciplines. In total, applications from UK applicants are down 8.7%:...
by Wendy Newman | Sep 19, 2013 | News
A close up on film… The European Day of Languages on film 26 September is the European Day of Languages, so to tie in with this event and help schools celebrate linguistic diversity, ALL has teamed up with FILMCLUB to put together an enrichment resource...
by Wendy Newman | Sep 5, 2013 | News
Good news but more action needed Today’s GCSE news has been greeted with cautious optimism by ALL officers and members. It provides a spark of hope after the disappointing A level languages statistics last week and recent stories in the media that recruiting...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 29, 2013 | News
The Headlines: Across all subjects, entries for A-Levels are down by 1.3% compared to 2012. A-Level language entries (including Irish and Welsh) have fallen by 5% overall – they now make up only 3.9% of all subject entries (3.8% discounting Irish and Welsh)...
by Wendy Newman | Aug 23, 2013 | News
Languages entries are up significantly (likely to be due to impact of EBacc). German up 9.4%, French 15.5%, Spanish 25.8%. Increase in other MLs as well. 44% of cohort took a language. Follow our website today for further analysis and comment.
