Amplifying children’s voices and expanding spaces for language and culture learning through a whole-school bilingual Russian-English project Vally Lytra, Maria Gavrilova, Paul Hume, Nadia Loureda, Tatiana Shtykova and Jelena Rosenberg  Vally Lytra is Reader in Languages in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London. Maria Gavrilova is Founder and Headteacher of Azbuka International School, where Paul Hume […]

Sharing the NCLE Vision of Principled Practice Introduction We asked UCL IOE’s Honorary Professor Bernardette Holmes  MBE, Director of the National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE) and the Language Hubs to choose 10 principles with examples to describe Principled Practice and Learning from What Works, which underlie the ethos of NCLE. Funded by DfE, the […]

Hawkins joins Trim in the ODNB   The contribution of Eric Hawkins to the development of our profession has been recognised by his inclusion in the online Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB). alongside other distinguished educators, including his friend and colleague (and ALL Fellow) John Trim.   Eric had a major impact on generations of UK […]