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Post date: Tuesday 31st August 2010
Region: National
Is it worthwhile learning another language? If you speak a few words of French, German or Chinese, or maybe you're even fluent in them, we what to know how and why you mastered it.
How does this skill improve your life? Does having another...
Post date: Wednesday 25th August 2010
Region: National
The BBC website provides a synopsis of the articles and blogs about the declining numbers of students learning languages.
Post date: Tuesday 24th August 2010
Region: West Midlands
Recent Government-commissioned report by the researchers from the Young People’s Enterprise Forum found that many schools lack in understanding of what enterprise education is. In many cases schools offer one-off events rather than skills...
Post date: Monday 23rd August 2010
Region: East Midlands
Routes into Languages has funded another round of Languages and You - language careers talks - for the coming academic year.
A Languages and You (formerly Languages Work) talk aims to bring a long-term perspective to language learning by encouraging...
Post date: Friday 20th August 2010
Region: National
The provisional results for 2010 were published today. The overall figure for languages shows a small decline, but with some significant variations between languages.
More about the changing figure for languages at A Level is available from The...
Post date: Tuesday 17th August 2010
Region: West Midlands
In his recent column on the Guardian newspaper, a leading translator Michael Hoffman argues that "to speak another language isn't just cultured, it's a blow against stupidity". If we rely solely on English, we lose the curiosity that drove...
