😍Fabulous opportunity for secondary/6th Form pupils to meet some real, live languages students and ask them questions about their modern languages degrees! Join this FREE webinar on Wednesday, 29 April 2026 at 4.30pm, courtesy of @unibirmingham
https://t.co/AeN1JDjRdv
Amazing opportunity! The @PolishEmbassyUK is offering FREE in-person Polish courses to UK nationals and students in UK unis, all you need to do is tell them why. Read more here: https://t.co/5mHMULMQMq
🌟A real milestone for policymakers: UCFL's new database is a practical tool to connect languages research with policy: showcasing the real-world relevance of languages research. Free to use - concise summaries. Please share widely ⬇️
#languagepolicyUK
💯Great opportunity: *short-term freelance role for a graduate student or postdoc* in a project to support universities' advocacy for German: "Collaborating for Change". Details below - pls share!
https://t.co/JTJ0Q9Omrr
😎What are you doing on 28 Feb? Hopefully joining wonderful colleagues for a unique day of thoughtful discussion with peers and @NALALanguages experts. Theme: The task of teaching & learning to meet the needs of everyone. Programme (downloadable PDF): https://t.co/7bAkt71g70
NEW blog post on The Languages Gateway by Zara Fahim, PhD student @UniofNottingham on the need to defend languages against cuts at Nottingham and other universities. Worth a read! See Zara's introduction to her piece in her LinkedIn post below:
https://t.co/Ni1J7asu4W
🧐Have you checked out the most recent resources listed on The Languages Gateway recently? (including ATWC below)... Have a quick peak here:
https://t.co/MM7ppwFuC7
...and submit any resources, projects or links you'd like to see included!
🚨Latest resource on the Gateway! Have you set up YOUR @EnactEuropa Around The World Club? New FREE schools pack to set up a vibrant learning space where children discover languages by engaging with cultural traditions from across the globe.
Details:
https://t.co/ceg5ccRokz
🚨Latest resource on the Gateway! Have you set up YOUR @EnactEuropa Around The World Club? New FREE schools pack to set up a vibrant learning space where children discover languages by engaging with cultural traditions from across the globe.
Details:
https://t.co/ceg5ccRokz
Have you and your colleagues had YOUR say on the place of languages in the Curriculum and Assessment Review? They are looking for evidence-based arguments: https://t.co/6i5p8Xffa7 (and easy read version as below)
The Easy Read version of the Curriculum and Assessment Review's Call for Evidence is now available:
Curriculum and Assessment Review - Department for Education - Citizen Space
Post-16 students are studying a narrower range of subjects than 20 years ago, which could limit their future education and career options, according to a new report commissioned by the British Academy ahead of tomorrow’s A-level results.
https://t.co/ag0bVfCWxS
If you run or know of a supplementary language school & are happy to be added to the site, contact [email protected] with details of the language, location & age groups. Otherwise circulate this across your networks. @YPFtrust@ALL4language#mfltwitterati#Languages
To maximise utility to the various user groups for https://t.co/oQKwk4XIt2 we are presently auditing and adding to current content. One key area we want to add to the site is a summary of #supplementaryeducation for languages across the UK.
The 2024 Mother Tongue Other Tongue digital anthology of North East children and young people's writing in 37 languages is now available to view online, celebrating linguistic and cultural diversity and what matters to them. Find out more: https://t.co/q5UVymhnYm
@VEverettmfl@MarkCritchley8 Point taken - it's worth noting this good news for MFL A level, although it's only one year. And indeed the article shows serious wider concerns.
'Figures show statistics, computing, physics & maths have risen in popularity & languages bouncing back'
'The number of French A-level candidates has grown by 8% over the last year, Spanish by 2.3% & German by 3.1%, the last albeit from a very low base'
https://t.co/mmkK4Iu8p2
Good to see languages & multilingualism prominent in @BritishAcademy_ Manifesto for Social Sciences, Humanities & the Arts — & also call for UK to play active role in shaping development of next round of European Framework Programmes & to rejoin Erasmus+ scheme
WoLLoW is proud to have created lesson resources for A Day of Welcome 2024. This year's theme is "home". Go to A Day of Welcome to access WoLLoW resources and much more. @NorwichSchool @BetterBilingual @RefugeeWeek @NorwichSOS @EnglishPlus_Nrw
The British Academy is delighted to relaunch the Journal of the British Academy, an online, open access journal showcasing the very best research in the humanities and social sciences. https://t.co/2NjBEAh9dy