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Shadow Education Secretary, Stephen Twigg, has backed the government’s introduction of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) which recognises students who achieve a GCSE C-grade or better in English, maths, history or geography, sciences and a language. Twigg...

A new website, ‘The EU Immigration Portal’, has been launched by European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Celia Malmström. The site aims to be a first port of call for all foreign nationals planning to move to the EU, providing practical information on...

The Coalition Government’s Education Bill has been granted Royal Assent, which completes the legislative procedure of the Government’s key educational reforms. Schools Minister, Nick Gibb said: “This new legislation hands to teachers all the powers...

Ofsted has launched a consultation on proposals to revise arrangements for the inspection of initial teacher education (ITE), which will be introduced from September 2012. They propose to raise expectations of providers of teacher training,with the aim of ensuring...

The Department for Education has set out their proposals for reform of initial teacher training, building on the ideas in the Schools White Paper, in their report 'Training our next generation of outstanding teachers'. After a consultation with initial teacher...

In radical proposals designed to overhaul the system of teacher training in England, funding will be reallocated from 2012 to allow more state-funded training places to be made available for subject specialist primary school teachers. From next year, teacher trainees...

As part of proposed reforms of the teacher training system in England, graduates with first-class honours degrees will be able to get bigger financial incentives to teach subjects seen as vital to pupils’ future career prospects, such as maths, physics,...

Over 100 Pre-Games Training Camp have been agreed across every nation and region of the UK, in preparation for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The camps will provide athletes with a base from which to prepare, train and acclimatise ahead of the Games,...

Education secretary Michael Gove has proposed teaching languages in schools from age five, in an interview with the Guardian ahead of this week's Conservative Party conference. "There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged...

Baroness Coussins, chair of the All-Party Group on Modern Languages, has expressed her concern about funding for students taking their year abroad, in a recent debate on the impact of Government policy on universities. Her concern centres around the fact that the fee...

Pop stardom, languages and sport with Arsenal FC! Do you want to enthuse your pupils for the Olympics and get creative with languages and music? The European Commission's London Office is a partner in the Arsenal Double Club project. Secondary schools are asked to...

You may have seen stories in the media in the last few days about a pronouncement by the Bishop of Bradford on language learning in the UK. The Bishop’s remarks were helpful in the sense that he emphasised the importance of language skills for UK citizens, but...

Congratulations to LinkedUp Project 'On the Snail Trail' - which has won a European Language Label, the EuroTalk Primary Education Language Prize and the Spanish Language Prize! This CLIL project integrates language learning in French, Italian, German and Spanish with...

The CILT Library collections have, through action coordinated by ALL and partners been conserved for future generations. At Easter 2011 CILT- the national centre for languages was required to merge with CfBT and moved its operations from London to Reading. The...

Foreign Secretary William Hague has pledged extra money for FCO staff language training in a £1m programme to improve the UK's ability to operate more effectively overseas: "We are turning around the decline in language teaching in the Foreign Office so...

So here we are! After 7 days, lots of hard work and 36,297,004 questions answered by 916 schools across the globe, here are the final results for the Language Perfect World Championships 2011: Top countries: 1. Australia - 7,266,022 (19,314,151 questions) 2. New...

A study of seduction by coffee giant Carte Noire among 1,000 women showed that speaking a foreign language was the most attractive quality in the opposite sex. Over four in 10 said it sounded seductive, while similar numbers believed it was a sign of intelligence....

Protests against planned cuts at the University of Glasgow, which led to student rallies earlier in the year, have now reached the Scottish Parliament. The Petitions Committee of MSPs has heard evidence from a number of campaigners who want to save lesser taught...

Message from ISMLA / ALL-London: First of all, our thanks to all the schools who contributed to this year’s survey. We received between 80 and 90 responses to both the AS and A2 questions, representing 1704 candidate entries at the former level and 1296 at the...

The European Commission will run its Juvenes Translatores translation contest for the fifth time in 2011! The contest is organised for 17-year-olds in secondary schools throughout the European Union. They will translate a 1-page text between any 2 languages from among...