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Links into Languages news

Recent information on the project and its partners

Region: North East

The Regional Language Network has put together a fun quiz to celebrate this year's European Day of Languages which is now available to download here.  

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Region: North West

EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES A CELEBRATION OF LANGUAGE HEROES AND HEROINES Today, on the European Day of Languages we would like to pay tribute at Links into Languages North West to the many language heroes and heroines out there, meeting the...

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Region: West Midlands

Italian Language and Methodology Immersion Course for Teachers Bologna 2010 This Comenius/Grundtvig funded course was run by Language Networks for Excellence; University of Wolverhampton and was a truly inspirational experience. As an adult...

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Region: North West

Our Links bear, Tiny has been out and about in the region in a one-bear bid to raise awareness of the European Day of Languages (September 26th). If you work out where he is (some of the pictures are more obvious than others) then we'd like to hear...

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Region: West Midlands

LANGUAGE WORLD 2011: All together! The Language World 2011 conference and exhibition is at Imperial College, London from Thursday evening 7 July until Saturday 9 July. This year’s theme is All together!   You can contribute to Language...

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Region: West Midlands

What is Olympic Dreams School Search? BBC World Class and the British Council are looking for dozens of primary and secondary schools across the UK to twin with schools all over the world and to take part in a special project in the run-up to the...

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Region: West Midlands

Children across the UK could be learning Hindi while cooking Chicken Rogan Josh, or Spanish while preparing a One-Pot Vegetable Chilli from Mexico, as part of the London 2012 education programme ‘Let’s Get Cooking Around the World...

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Region: West Midlands

Is diversity a threat or an opportunity? Tide Global Learning works with various institutions and people to help teachers to address issues that touch young learners today. Izzy Mohammed from the Birmingham archives and heritage Service is...

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Region: South East

20-26 September 2010 The Association for Language Learning would like to know about the issues which particularly concern you about the teaching and learning of languages and suggestions of things that should be done to tackle these. At a time of...

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Region: East Midlands

Region: South East

CILT is supporting the first ever national Visit our Schools and Colleges week: October 18-22. Through the week, head teachers are inviting members of their local business communities to come and visit to find out more about modern education and...

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Region: East Midlands

Provide your school with authentic German cultural input Under this programme, UK schools can host a teacher from Germany for either two or three weeks to give the visitor an insight into daily life in a UK school and to bring an international...

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Region: East Midlands

With PGCE students in mind, ALL has upgraded its Student Associate Membership package for 2010/11. From this September, all student teachers joining ALL will receive:   ALLNet: keep abreast of news, developments and events in the world of...

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Region: North West

Links into Languages Newsletter and Update, September 2010 The new school year sees our calendar already very full and getting busier! The director and regional manager have been invited to a series of meetings with new PGCE Languages students...

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Region: North West

Our Links bear, Tiny has been out and about in the region in a one-bear bid to raise awareness of the European Day of Languages (September 26th). If you work out where he is (some of the pictures are more obvious than others) then we'd like to...

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Region: West Midlands

The latest update from Global Gateway details some of the ways they can offer support to schools with international projects. Connecting Classrooms - Small groups of schools from the UK partner schools from two countries within one continent....

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Region: East Midlands

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tr1mz/The_Andrew_Marr_Show_05_09_2010/

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Region: East

August 2010 Cutting Bureaucracy or Changing the Agenda: Changes to the 14-19 Landscape Post-2010 Election Contents Introduction Spending Cuts Ministerial Announcements Summary of Changes Conclusions Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Aimhigher...

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Region: West Midlands

The first issue of the Links into Languages West Midlands Newsletter is out NOW! Please click on the link below to preview a copy.

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Region: Yorkshire

  In recent weeks, a lot has been said about language-learning in British schools. The following links highlight a selection of news stories on the subject: Are dying languages worth saving? - NEW (Added 16/09/10) Is it worthwhile...

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Region: East Midlands

Links into Languages and SSAT would like to understand more about your professional learning and development needs. Your feedback will be used to further develop the national and regional CPD programme provided by Links into Languages, and to ensure...

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Region: East Midlands

Learning languages still matters Learning a foreign language: Now you're talking GCSE results: Why we should mind our languages Damage to language teaching 'irreparable' Should British pupils give up studying French? The language crisis in British...

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Region: East Midlands

Is it worthwhile learning another language?    

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Region: East Midlands

The Government is considering its plans for the National Curriculum in schools. They believe that the current National Curriculum has moved far away from the concept of core knowledge and from its original purpose – to set out what all...

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Region: West Midlands

If you are interested in attending the Links into Languages core course - The renewed KS3 framework - find out more about what some of last year's attendants thought of the course.

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Region: West Midlands

Teachers who attended this one-day Links into Languages course explain how they have addressed the challenge of integrating languages across the primary curriculum in their schools. Click on the download to read the full report.

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Region: West Midlands

Teachers who attended the one-day Interactive Creative Technologies course at Aston University share what they learnt and how they'll be implementing it in their language lessons. Click on the download below for the full report.

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Region: North West

Links into Languages North West Secondary Languages Network Support Programme Networking is one of the most valuable forms of professional development for teachers. Evaluations from courses and meetings have shown that while content and new ideas...

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Region: Yorkshire

The latest edition of the LinkedUp Newsletter, highlighting successful language projects across the country, is available to download. Please click on the document at the bottom of this page to view

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