by cristahazell | Feb 18, 2020 | ALL Sector, Corporate Member, Discussion Area, News, Uncategorized
What role do languages, humanities and social sciences have to play in shaping the 2020s? Nine Fellows of the British Academy, representing a wide range of academic disciplines, set out the challenges and opportunities they see for their subjects over the next decade....
by cristahazell | Feb 18, 2020 | Brexit news, Discussion Area, News, Uncategorized
The much loved and highly beneficial ERASMUS scheme is again under discussion. Read the latest article from the BBC here. The rest of this post can only be viewed by members. Please click here to...
by cristahazell | Feb 18, 2020 | Corporate Member, Discussion Area, News, Uncategorized, What's New, World languages news
Since publication, this article and infographics ranking the 100 most spoken languages around the world has been causing a bit of a stir amongst teachers, especially languages teachers, across the globe. If you love languages, read more here. The rest of this post...
by cristahazell | Feb 10, 2020 | ALL Language, News, Pedagogy, Secondary, Secondary News, Teacher Briefings, Uncategorized
Theme: Boys and Languages This is an overview of a very recent report led by the British Council and the Education Policy Institute published in January 2020. The report comes in two parts: Part 1 looks at the background, while Part 2 looks at schools’ strategies....
by cristahazell | Jan 30, 2020 | Action research, ALL Language, ALL Local, Corporate Member, Discussion Area, How to, Language World, News, Secondary, Secondary events, Secondary News, Uncategorized, What's New
Professor Neil Kenny, one of our Language World speakers has been commenting on the British Council released from Monday, focusing on the gender gap in modern foreign languages at GCSE. Read more here The rest of this post can only be viewed by members. Please click...
by cristahazell | Jan 27, 2020 | ALL Local, Discussion Area, How to, Language News, News, Secondary, Secondary News, Uncategorized
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....
