CILT in the news

Article pointing to how the growing number of primary language teachers has created closer links between teachers across the primary-secondary divide:

"The primary training route is a really attractive one," explains Teresa Tinsley, director of communications for CILT, the government-funded National Centre for Languages, "because you get to do one of your teaching practices abroad, which gives you an insight into another education system, and experiences that can be really valuable when you return."

Met helps voice merits of the Turkish tongue
Times Educational Supplement, 14 May

Article about Stoke Newington School and Met Police Business Language Champions link-up with Kathryn Board quoted:

"We are often criticised for not being good at languages, but actually one in ten secondary school students in the UK already has an additional language. We need to recognise the value of these languages and celebrate the potential advantage they bring to our economy."

Mind Your Language
BQ (Business Quarter), June edition

A profile of “one of the North East business’s top linguists”, Julie Morris, who promotes languages in business – and talks about Business Language Champions.

Pitch perfect: Learning languages to boost careers
BBC News, 5 May

Article about how languages advance careers –with quotes from Teresa Tinsley

Russia morning at academy
Nottingham Evening Post, 24 April

A Business Language Champions event held at a Nottingham academy.

World wide workplace
Reading Chronicle, 14 April (also in the Slough & South Bucks Observer, Wokingham News, Bristol Evening Post & Western Daily Press)

Article about improving job prospects by learning a language, with Kathryn Board quoted

Flash forward
TES Magazine, 09 April

Article about web technology and languages, with information about MYLO

Briton’s weak and declining language skills are set to marginalise them in Europe
E Sharpe, March – April edition

Chief Editorial Writer for the Independent comments on the decline in languages

The big education issue: Modern foreign languages
Child Education Plus, 26 March

Article by Lucy Adamson

Graduate job hunters with languages better placed, expert claims
Pareto Graduate Jobs News

With quotes from Teresa Tinsley

Second language useful in jobs race
GAAP News

With quotes from Teresa Tinsley

Latin a good grounding for other languages
SFS Group News, 19 March

Articles promoting Latin learning, with quotes from Teresa Tinsley
And Boris has his say too (also contains quote from Teresa Tinsley)

Speak up for languages
TeacherNet, 25 February

‘Top employers back campaign to help young people bolster their CVs by learning languages.’

The family way
Kidderminster Shuttle, 20 February (also covered in the Stourbridge News)

With quotes from Teresa Tinsley

FAMILY MATTERS: Parents should mind their language
The Star – Yorkshire, 18 February

With quotes from Teresa Tinsley.

Foreign tongues still add up to bad language for insular British
Yorkshire Post, 14 February

With quotes from Teresa Tinsley.

Third of parents fail to encourage children to take languages
The Telegraph, 07 February

Parents hinder language studies because of homework fears
The Mirror, 02 February

With quotes from Teresa Tinsley

'Worthless qualifications' give false hope to state pupils, says Harrow head
The Guardian, 22 January

‘Public school headmaster says state sector risks producing students like 'X-Factor contestants who can't sing'.’

Foreign languages becoming 'privilege of elite'
The Times, 21 January

‘Foreign language lessons are becoming the privilege of elite and wealthy children, a Government adviser warns today as figures showed another drop in teenagers studying the subject.’

Spanish more popular with students than German
Daily Express, 21 January

‘Spanish is offered in 62 per cent of schools, overtaking German at 55 per cent, according to CILT, the National Centre for Languages.’

Kathryn Board: 'Graduates without a second language are disadvantaged when looking for jobs'
The Independent, Independent Minds, 21 January 2010

Refers to CILT article in the Independent Language Supplement on 15 October 2009.

Languages are becoming 'twilight subjects' at state schools
The Guardian, 20 January

‘Career prospects of comprehensive pupils are being harmed by the demise of foreign languages, says report’.

Auf Wiedersehen German, Hola Spanish
The Guardian, 20 January

‘More state secondary schools are teaching Spanish than German for the first time.’

Number of pupils studying foreign language plummets to just four in 10
Daily Mail, 20 January

Schools abandon foreign language targets
Independent, 20 January

‘Growing numbers of schools are abandoning a government target to get 50 per cent of their pupils to learn a language at 14, it was revealed today.’

Comment: Languages need to be a priority for the pupils' and the nation's sake
The Independent, 20 January

Comment by Teresa Tinsley, CILT

Fewer schools hit language target
BBC News, 20 January

‘Fewer secondary schools in England are meeting a government target on pupils taking a GCSE in a modern foreign language, a survey suggests.’

Foreign exchanges 'axed over safety fears'
Telegraph, 20 January

‘Schools are abandoning foreign exchange trips because of red tape and fears over child safety, according to research.’

Foreign languages are 'elitist' subjects
Telegraph, 20 January

‘A generation of children is being left behind as foreign languages become “elitist” subjects dominated by private school pupils, according to research.’

Internet signs of the decline and fall of the Roman empire
The Scotsman, 20 November

'The use of scripts other than Roman characters to register top-level domain names was recently sanctioned by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number'.

Primary Language Teacher Award 2009 winner announced
Scholastic, 17 November

With a quote from Geoff Swinn

Speaking the same language
SecEd, 5 November

Article looking at 'how schools can work with students who have English as an additional language.' - featuring Sarah Cartwright

Making languages cool: motivating teenaged language learners
Teaching Times, 5 November

Article about encouraging students to continue with languages - by Catherine Mansfield and Michelle Brassell

Different class: How a new online approach aims to revolutionise language learning
The Independent (Languages supplement), 15 October

Innovative ideas for language learning – with quotes from Kate Board

For Queen and country: Fluent speakers of foreign languages are in hot demand in the civil and secret services
The Independent (Languages supplement), 15 October

‘Linguists are essential to the smooth working of many government departments and agencies, and are particularly valued in the covert world of the intelligence services.’ – with quotes from Teresa Tinsley

'Graduates without a second language are disadvantaged when looking for jobs' The Independent (Languages supplement), 15 October

Kathryn Board on why young people should be encouraged to learn languages.

Are British businesses relying on the English language too much?
The Telegraph, 12 October

Article about the need to learn languages for business

Language teaching in primaries slammed as chaotic and variable
TES, 18 September

Research conducted by Manchester University has concluded that language teaching in primary schools is ‘catastrophically diverse’ and when children enter secondary school, language skills vary considerably across the year group.

The article highlights CILT’s new agenda for languages and the call for the education system to offer a wider range of languages in schools and encourage more young people to continue with their language skills – with quotes from Kate Board.

Language shortage will hold Britain back, say campaigners
Times Online, 10 September 2009

‘A shortage of language graduates will hold Britain back as it tries to emerge from recession, campaigners say.’ - with a quote from Kate Board.

Modern language skills to lift UK out of recession
Education Business, 10 September

Article promoting CILT’s new agenda – with quotes from Teresa Tinsley

Universities ‘forced to stop teaching languages’
Guardian Unlimited Education, 09 September

‘Universities are being forced to abandon the teaching of pure languages after the government dropped mandatory lessons in secondary schools, the head of Universities UK, which represents vice-chancellors, is warning as its annual conference starts today’ – with quotes from Kate Board.

Lack of languages may damage economy
More 4 News, 8pm, 09 September

TV report and an interview with Kate Board.

Poor language skills ‘hamper UK’
BBC News, 08 September

BBC article promoting CILT’s new agenda – with quotes from Kate Board and Teresa Tinsley.

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