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Winners of the European Award for Languages!

Monday 14th Jun 2010

We are pleased to announce that the Teacher Training strand of the COLT project has been awarded the European Award for Languages this year. The Award is a Europe-wide initiative supported by...

Region: North West

Southampton students help with GCSE revision

Monday 14th Jun 2010

Oral examinations in Modern Languages fill many students with dread. However, Cams Hill School in Fareham has found a way of making them seem less intimidating for their GCSE candidates by...

Region: South East

Test your language knowledge and donate rice at the same time!!

Thursday 10th Jun 2010

FreeRice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Programme partnered with the Berkman Center for Internet...

Region: West Midlands

Routes into Languages receives further funding

Wednesday 9th Jun 2010

We are delighted to announce that Routes into Languages has received further funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to...

Region: National

Teachers of Urdu in the North West Region

Friday 4th Jun 2010

Links into Languages North West invites you to attend a development meeting on Tuesday 15th June from 1.30-3.30pm. This will be taking place at Sackville Street Campus, the University of...

Region: North West

Hull City Double Club

Friday 28th May 2010

Hull City Football Club and Yorkshire County Cricket Club in association with the Yorkshire Cricket Board have joined in partnership to deliver a modern foreign language programme to local primary...

Region: Yorkshire and the Humber

Sixth Form Conference

Friday 28th May 2010

Despite the fact that one of the 6th formers attending one of the three day revision conferences in the Modern Languages Department at Hull University unfortunately found “Reading the set text very...

Region: Yorkshire and the Humber

Chinese New Year Celebrations!

Friday 28th May 2010

Chinese New Year 2010 was celebrated with much enthusiasm by students from David Young Community Academy, Holy Trinity Senior School, Minsthorpe Community College and St Bede's Catholic Grammar...

Region: Yorkshire and the Humber

Brand New College Joins Our Ranks!

Friday 28th May 2010

Swallow Hill Community College is less than a year old and already a Routes into Languages partner school. SHCC opened in September 2009 in a superb new flagship building and provides a fantastic...

Region: Yorkshire and the Humber

Going Global - 19th January 2010

Tuesday 18th May 2010

Going Global - 19th January 2010 Gifted and Talented event for GCSE/AS students   Over 100 secondary pupils from all over Yorkshire and the Humber descended on the Modern Languages...

Region: Yorkshire and the Humber

French Activity Weekend

Tuesday 18th May 2010

French Activity Weekend   23-25 April 2010   Leeds Met Language Ambassadors have been helping school students gain more confidence in French. Seven level 2 French undergraduates...

Region: Yorkshire and the Humber

Year Abroad Volunteer Really Makes a Difference

Monday 17th May 2010

Helping Underprivileged Children Of Lençois A Volunteer Project in the Chapada Diamantina Region of Brazil Article and photos from original article by Lies Ouwerkerk Independent Travel...

Region: North East

King Edwards Camp Hill students impress The Dragons!

Monday 17th May 2010

On 2nd February 2010 King Edwards Camp Hill VI Camp Hill School for Girls played host to a Dragons' Den inspired business event.   Pupils from both the girls' and boys' schools used their...

Region: West Midlands

Learning A Foreign Language is 'aaaalreet'

Friday 14th May 2010

Geordies are the most likely tourists to try and speak a foreign language while on holiday. In a nationwide poll conducted by low fares airline, easyJet, more than 74 per cent of people from...

Region: North East

'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live

Friday 7th May 2010

Arab nations are leading a "historic" charge to make the world wide web live up to its name. Net regulator Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses that contain no Latin...

Region: National

LAFTAs 2010 - People's Vote

Wednesday 5th May 2010

The Language and Film Talent Awards (LAFTAs) is a UK-wide competition which asks young people aged 13-21 to make two-minute film clips which demonstrate the importance of languages. This year over...

Region: National

NNI/NNT South England and Wales careers conference

Tuesday 4th May 2010

On March 16th over 200 students attended the joint NNI and NNT South England and Wales careers conference held in the historic Wills Memorial Hall. The event was jointly organized by the...

Ipswich Double Club

Tuesday 4th May 2010

The latest Routes into Languages East project was launched on Thursday with a visit to Portman Road for 21 year 9 pupils and their teacher, Jenny Turner from Stowmarket High School. The new project...

Region: East of England

The Solent EBP Language Challenge 2010

Wednesday 28th Apr 2010

Over 100 students, with 17 teachers, drawn from 15 schools across the Solent region, gathered at the University of Southampton on 22nd March to take part in the Solent-EBP Language challenge. Solent...

Region: South East

EU translator competition

Monday 26th Apr 2010

The European Personnel Selection Office will most likely launch a competition in July to recruit English-language translators for the European Union institutions. Applicants must be citizens of any...

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