An advice document (July 2019) was produced by Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) in association with British Council and National Governors Association (NGA) to assist governors, trustees and governing boards to support language learning in their...
Language Trends is an annual survey of primary and secondary schools in England, designed to gather information about the current situation for language teaching and learning. Please explore our recent Teacher Briefing on the report.
The new Ofsted EIF (Education Inspection Framework) has been published. The Framework is a considerable size (around 100 pages) and is detailed. The extracts contained in this Briefing do not represent the totality of its content by any means. An article based on a...
The British Council’s Vicky Gough’s Last Word article in Languages Today (January 2019) outlined issues affecting the traditional School Exchange (and Study Visits) in some sectors and some, but not all, parts of the country. Since then there have been...
OWRI is the Open World Research Initiative, funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council). It aims ‘to regenerate and transform modern language learning by foregrounding language’s power to shape how we live and make our worlds.’ There are four...
Background: A considerable number of advisory documents, reports, campaigns and recommendations have emerged in the public domain in the last few weeks, many of them with input from ALL members. This Briefing (necessarily longer than usual) provides a few selected...
