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Special Prizes 2009

All Award winners receive prizes of books, vouchers or teaching materials from a range of sponsors as well as a certificate signed by the European Commissioner for Education and Culture and UK Ministers.

Winners will be identified for their outstanding work in particular areas of language learning.

 

Euro London Appointments Business Language Prize
For the best project developing language provision to match the needs of business and employers. Prize of £1,000.

Our Language Community Languages prize
For the best project involving community languages. Prize of £1,000.

EuroTalk Primary Education Language Prize
For the best project involving early language learning.

French Embassy Language Prize
For the best project involving French.

German Embassy Language Prize
For the best project involving German.

Spanish Embassy Language Prize
For the best project involving Spanish.

Italian Embassy Language Prize
For the best project involving Italian.

Routledge Adult Education Language Prize
For the best project involving adult learners (including HE).

TDA Initial Teacher Education Prize
TDA ITT Partnership Schools Prize (with prize money of £1,000). This prize will go to the most creative language project in an ITT partnership school. The winner will be expected to show evidence of involvement of trainees while on placement (this could include GTP students).

 

The Mary Glasgow Award

Each year one of the winning projects is selected by the Mary Glasgow Language Trust to receive its annual award of £2,000 – the winner of which is announced at the Award ceremony.

Mary Glasgow Language Trust winner 2008

Mary Glasgow founded the Mary Glasgow Language Trust after a lifetime in languages, as a teacher, HM Inspector of Schools and later as a publisher, and the work of the Trust continues in her memory. Trustees are represented on the panel of judges and their criteria for choosing the winner are the same as those for the European Award.