How to … include all languages, and enrich your school’s culture and success ‘Languages are a gateway, a window we see the world through. And from a house with multiple windows, the view outside is simply more glorious’ Sharmaine Benkaddour-de Graaf (1). According to 2022 statistics of the Department for Education (2), 19.5% or 1.6 […]

NCLE – National Consortium for Languages Education – system-led impact! In March 2023 UCL IOE, University College London’s Faculty of Education and Society, together with the British Council and Goethe-Institut formed the National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE) to lead the national Language Hubs Programme over the next three years, with the aim of  energising […]

In the classroom: the skills of translating   Translation is a real-life skill as well as an examination test, and the process of translating has traditionally been part of language courses at all levels. Lauren Houldridge here explores the enrichment that carefully planned and supported translation activities can bring to learning and the skills that […]