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About the European Award for Languages | 2007 winners |
Mary Glasgow Award
2006 Winner: Immersion Teaching
Staff from Tile Hill Wood School receive their £2,000
The Mary Glasgow
Language Trust was founded in 1978 by Mary Glasgow CBE. Honoured by
both the French and British Governments for her outstanding work in the
fields of both languages education and the arts, Mary was successively
a languages teacher, HMI, first Secretary-General of the Arts Council
and educational publisher.
The Trust continues under the chairmanship of her nephew, Edwin Glasgow CBE, QC, and current Trustees have wide experience of modern languages work at a national level in all sectors of education, as well as on Government-sponsored and independent education bodies.
The Trust's aim is primarily to support and encourage outstanding curriculum development in the teaching of languages. Accordingly, it awards occasional grants, and, more particularly, annual cash prizes, with the dual purpose of assisting schools and colleges, and bringing excellence to national attention.
Since 2000, the Trust has been collaborating with CILT, the National Centre for Languages, as a partner in the development of the European Award for Languages. The Trust's special contribution to this is an annual £2,000 prize awarded for the EAL winning project which has most impressed the Trust's judges.
