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Sanako’s most recent newsletter was a superb read sharing details of how a number of schools and institutions are enhancing their MFL provision to have real impact through a variety of projects and there are case studies. From primary, two projects and how Julia Donaldson’s children’s favourite; The Gruffalo is having a huge impact upon […]
Professor Neil Kenny comments on the British Council Report on Boys studying modern foreign languages at GCSE in schools in England
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
Interested in DIPS? (Developing International Projects for Schools)
Seeking to internationalise your curriculum? Want to learn from Best Practice as well as sharing your own project experiences as well as extend your PLN of international educators? Then you might be very interested in this; Our partners at the LFEE Europe are seeking to develop more international projects for schools, if you are interested […]
Boys studying modern foreign languages at GCSE in schools in England
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. Detailing key findings, recommendations in trends in boys’ language GCSE entry […]
Teacher Briefing 17: Theme: Current initiatives concerning Languages
Learning foreign languages should be compulsory, says report.
A report, published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) published a report citing that only 32% of young people in the UK say they are able to read or write in more than one language, compared with 79% of their peers in France and more than 90% in Germany. Read the article in the […]
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