News from FE

• Including languages in the Diplomas is a positive step - CILT's monthly FE News article. What is the place of languages in the Diplomas, the new qualifications for 14 to 19-year olds? (11.7.07)
• Modern Foreign Languages in a vocational context report
  For an overview of vocational language learning in Further Education within England, you can download the report carried out by Carol Collins and Maggie Greenwood on behalf the LSDA.

• Moving languages on in further and adult education - CILT's monthly FE News article. Adult Learners’ Week (19-25 May) will see a variety of activities and as a supporter of the Week CILT will be providing ideas for motivating adults to engage in language learning. (14/5/07)
• Applying new thinking to language learning - CILT's monthly FE News article. The College of North East London (CONEL) expands its offer of vocationally-related language courses in preparation for the new 14 to 19 Diplomas. (11/4/07)
  
• Diploma news from the Sector Skills Development Agency
  More skills for construction sector as nearly 4,000 construction and the built environment diploma places are made available across the Country.
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• English Just Isn't Enough - FE News article. The importance of highlighting to students the practical benefits of language skills in the workplace. (12/2/07)
  
• New campaign demonstrates the need for work-related language skills (pdf, 157KB)
  Teenagers are to see how languages fit into specific job sectors through a new range of resources from the Languages Work campaign. Lord Dearing expressed a need for strong promotion of the case for learning languages in his interim consultation report and the new material will help schools make the case that languages will be important to students in their future lives. (23/01/07)

Go to the new free Languages Work resources

• Research study shows link between language skills and export success
  CILT, along with its research partner, InterAct International, have now completed their research into the Effects on the European Economy of Shortages of Foreign Language Skills in Enterprise. The report has been submitted to the European Commission and is expected to be published later this year. (25/1/07)
  
  
• Employers must 'articulate their views' - CILT's monthly FE News article.
  The significance of the Dearing review for languages in Further Education. (08/1/07)
  
  
• 'Colleges hit by language decline' - Read about one Principal's concern for languages in Further Education.
  
  
• What would CILT do if it were in charge of funding for languages in Further Education? - Sharon Czudak, CILT's 14 to 19 Language Teaching Adviser for FE, explains how CILT would structure language provision in Further Education.