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languages stories in the news.
September 2010
Black cab
drivers learn languages for London Olympics
BBC News, 27 September
'Fair trade'
solution to learning a new language
BBC News, 17
September
What to do with a degree in modern languages
The
Guardian, 18 September
Are dying languages
worth saving?
BBC News, 15 September
Highlands
school pupils favour Gaelic over German
BBC News, 13 September
Primary schools rush to drop
languages as compulsory lessons are abandoned
The
Times, 11 September
English
pupils are world-beaters – at not learning foreign
languages
TES, 10 September
'English Baccalaureate' to combat drop in academic
GCSEs
The Telegraph, 6 September
Leading article: A lesson learned?
The Telegraph,
6 September
Baccalaureate planned to reverse the decline in foreign
languages
The Independent, 6 September
Subjects
at risk from cuts
Teaching
Times, 3 September
Union warns
that languages, music and D&T are on hit list in heads’ hunt
for savings
TES, 3 September
Budget cuts threat to music, language and classics
classes
Evening Standard, 3 September
Who will speak up for languages?
THE, 2 September
August 2010
The right language
The Daily Express, 31 August
Learning languages still matters
The Guardian, 30
August
Latin can inspire a love of languages
The
Guardian, 29 August
Learning a foreign language: now you’re
talking
The Guardian, 28 August
Language skills proved useless
Letters to the Independent, 27 August
Should British pupils
give up studying French?
BBC News Magazine, 27
August
GCSE exam
pass-rate increases for the 23rd year
Teaching
Times, 27 August
GCSE results: Why we should mind our
languages
The Telegraph, 26 August
Language skills could aid those looking for financial services jobs
in global firms
Insight, 26 August
Damage to language teaching 'irreparable'
The
Indpendent, 26 August
Warning as French drops out of the top ten
Mail
Online, 25 August
Modern languages warning as
French drops out of top ten for the first
time
The Times, 25 August
GCSE’s in the dock as record number pass them a year
early...including a five-year-old
The Mail
Online, 25 August
The language crisis in British schools
The
Independent, 25 August
Daily View: Decline in students taking language
GCSEs
BBC Blog, 25 August
Andy Bates, project manager: When 'no problem' is a
problem
South West Business, 25 August
99% record GCSE pass rate
Mirror Online, 25
August
Leading article: The insularity of our national
curriculum
The Independent, 25 August
GCSE results: Tongues tied
The Guardian, 25
August
Speaking language 'can make trading more
successful'
Chartered Management Institute, 24 August
GCSE results: French 'no longer a popular
subject'
The Telegraph, 24 August
GCSE results: Pupils spurn languages for
sciences
The Guardian, 24 August
GCSE results: French 'no longer a popular
subject'
The Telegraph, 24 August
Languages fade as pupils opt for science
The Financial Times, 24 August
French slumps out of GCSE top
10
The Times, 24 August
Slump in languages 'will cost British pupils dear in jobs
market'
Thisislondon, 24 August
Languages Considered Least Important Subjects For Children
To Learn At School
FreshBusinessThinking.com, 23
August
Maths is multiplying
and science fizzing, but language barrier is still solid as
ever
The Times, 20 August
A-level results: French and German entries
slump
The Telegraph, 19 August
Time to go
native
The Sunday Times, 8 August
More British students 'to study abroad', says
Willetts
The Telegraph, 1 August
July 2010
39 per cent of Brits ‘embarrassed’ that they can’t speak the lingo
on holiday
Breaking Travel News, 28 July
Latin is back in London primary schools
Evening Standard, 21 July
Comment: Mind the language gap
Politics.co.uk, 8 July
C'est la guerre as French resistance tackled
Yorkshire Post, 2 July
Working with languages
The Advertiser, North
Yorkshire, 2 July
June 2010
My French is poor – but is Chinese more
important?
This is Plymouth, 26 June
German diplomat urges children to learn a
language
The Independent, 18 June
‘Don’t learn useless French,’ says shadow
minister
Evening Standard, 15 June (also in Mail
Online and Mail on Sunday)
Former minister Chris Bryant: French is a useless
language
The Telegraph, 15 June
Learners are getting lost without translation
skills
The Guardian, 15 June
Writers demand return of Latin to curriculum to end Labour’s
‘discrimination’ of classics
Daily Mail, 14
June
The dead language that could be coming to life again in
schools
Yorkshire Post, 14 June
Sarah Sands: Clever Clegg minds his languages - all six of
them
The Independent, 13 June
Saying Britons 'don't do' languages is a
fallacy
The Guardian, 13 June
Britain’s foreign language skills put to
shame
Recruiter, 10 June
Government drops diploma plans – but opts for
IGCSEs
The Independent, 8 June
State schools get go-ahead to teach new style
O-levels
Mail Online, 8 June
Coalition axes Labour's 'academic'
diplomas
The Telegraph, 7 June
State school to
offer international GCSE exams
BBC News, 7
June
Sideline
modern languages at your peril, HMIE chief warns
secondaries
TES, 4 June
Russell urges
HE rethink
TES, 4
June
Global Online English Language Education Market Growing by
22%
euroinvestor.co.uk, 2 June
Sideline
modern languages at your peril, HMIE chief warns
secondaries
TES, 4 June
Russell urges
HE rethink
TES, 4 June
Number taking Leaving Cert Irish at record low
level
Irish Times, 3 June
Global Online English Language Education Market Growing by
22%
euroinvestor.co.uk, 2 June
Nunthorpe kids add French dressing to
show
Gazette Live (Teeside website), 2 June
May 2010
New survey
of 16,000 final year students shows only a third of the ‘Class of
2010’ expect to find a graduate job after
university
High Fliers Research, 27 May
Letter to The Times: Focus on English
The Times,
25 May
State school heads tell Prince Charles they are fed up with
‘do-gooding curriculum’
The Mail on Sunday, 24
May
Hodder Education launches first app
Bookseller.com, 19 May
Britain facing humiliating decline in foreign languages, says
peer
The Times, 18 May
Click here to read Baroness Coussins’ letter to The Times
Are we heading towards a language crisis in our
schools?
The Times, 17 May
Languages crisis is threatening a generation of state school
pupils
The Times, 15 May
Linguistic isolationism
Times Higher Education,
13 May
Almost 1m pupils speak English as second
language
The Telegraph, 13 May
This article is also covered in The Independent
Sector fears for future as its Commons champions are
lost
Times Higher Education, 13 May
Edge Hill University - Taking the plunge in
Mandarin
Times Higher Education, 13 May
Languages set to take off
North Tyneside Council
website, 11 May
How English erased its roots to become the global tongue of
the 21st century
The Observer,
9 May
Google launches instant translation tool
Telegraph.co.uk, 7 May
Making computers see with Goggles and translate pictures
into words
Story also covered in The Independent, 7 May
Cuts
threaten long standing courses
TES, 7 May
April 2010
From where I sit: Lost without translation
Times Higher Education, 29 April
Brussels wants you to apply: The European Union has
abolished its archaic test
The Independent, 29 April
French taster for toddlers
Retford Times, 29 April
The whole world is a classroom for
pupils
thisissouthdevon.co.uk, 28 April
The little tricks that REALLY boost your brain
power
The Daily Mail, 28 April
‘Listening to Foreign Language CDs’ is number
4 on the Mail’s list of things to keep our minds nimble.'
Europe Day to be celebrated in Carlisle
Library
Lakeland Echo, 27 April
CIA to spend millions on improving spying
techniques
The Telegraph, 27 April
Women's Voice project celebrates success
Enfield Independent, 27 April
Wolverhampton bids ‘au revoir’ to French, ‘adios’ to
Spanish
Times Higher Education,
23 April
Old Firm star teaches how to talk fussball
The
Herald, 23 April
Is Welsh
language education a £10m luxury?
TES, 23
April
Future of Belgium under threat over language
row
Telegraph.co.uk, 22 April
Language gap is latest threat to jobs
The Irish
Times, 20 April
Grammar row over Spanish poster to boost English
schools
Telegraph.co.uk, 19
April
Every ash cloud has a silver lining – how to pronounce the
Icelandic volcano!
The Independent, 19 April
'Little or
no' help for primary language teachers
TES
Scotland, 16 April
University will drop language courses
Express
& Star, 16 April
Forcing students to learn Irish has failed, says
Hayes
Irish Times, 15 April
Tongue tied
The Times, 13 April
English-speaking pupils now the minority in 1,500 British
schools
Daily Mail, 12 April
Labour will force foreign workers to speak
English
The Times, 12 April
Education
is key election battleground, says Brown
TES, 09 April
Talk is cheap
Times Higher Education, 08
April
Teaching of languages in primary schools hampered by staff's lack
of training
The Scotsman, 07 April
Monoglottal stop
Times Higher Education, 05 April
Urdu degree ‘first’ for city
universities
Trafford Metro News, 05 April
Boys still bottom of class for languages
Irish
Independent, 03 April
Thomas Lord Audley School pupils learn to rap... in
German
Daily Gazette Colchester, 02 April
Languages need a higher priority
The Herald
Scotland, 01 April
Schools miss language targets
The Herald
Scotland, 01 April
March 2010
French government picks new words to replace
English
The Telegraph, 31 March
Deluded, moi?
The Guardian, 23 March
Lessons are worlds apart
Bracknell News, 20 March
Cost
in translation
Newry Reporter, 19 March
Faith in marking gets lost in translation
Forge Today (University of Sheffield news website), 18 March
Just over the river, plans to boost Westminster’s GCSE
grades
Westminster Chronicle, 17 March
Lingo Link Bob is Volunteer of the Year
thisissomerset.co.uk, 17 March
Confucius would be confused
The Guardian, 16 March
Modern
languages at risk
TES, 12 March
Social
networking shunned as aid to language teaching
TES, 12 March
37
civil servants respond to Irish lesson trawl
BBC, 11 March
Sheffield
expert honoured by French Prime
Minister
University of Sheffield, 10 March
Gove unveils Tory plan for return to ‘traditional’ school
lessons
The Times, 6 March
The many voices of the web
The Economist, 4 March
Rugby lads get to grips with French
St Helens Star, 3 March
February 2010
Growing outcry at threat of cuts in humanities at
universities
The Guardian, 28 February
Modern languages degrees 'could die out within 20
years'
The Telegraph, 28 February
Exams in Mandarin 'must be made easier'
The Independent, 26 February
Call for primary teachers to have extra language
lessons
The Herald Scotland, 20 February
Greens go back to school
This is Plymouth, 14 February
The town where pupils speak 150 different
languages
Daily Mail, 08 February
December 2009
'Students should study more academic
subjects'
December 1st, The Independent
The thinktank Reform urges schools to focus on academic
subjects
December 1st, The Guardian
November 2009
Review of
modern foreign languages: joint response by HEFCE and the
Department for Business, Innocation and Skills
November 30th, HEFCE website
Why make learning a foreign language your New Year's
resolution?
November 30th, The Independent
Teach
English history 'in French'
November 26th, BBC
News
Trainee
bursaries slashed
November 20th, TES
Find a voice in a global market
November 20th, The Sunday Times
No foreign language on holiday please, we're
British
November 13th, Yahoo News
Twitter to launch paid-for service for
businesses
November 13th, IT Week
Latin makes a comeback in primary
schools
November 10th, The Telegraph
Haud mea culpa, domina! (As they say in primary
school)
November 9th, The Independent
October 2009
Foreign language teaching is in decline
October 30th, The Independent
Speak up to keep languages alive, review
says
October 22nd, Times Higher Education
Languages need a single voice to command attention, says
review
October 20th, Times Higher Education
Universities 'betraying' foreign
languages
October 20th, The Telegraph
Start school at six, key schools report
recommends
October 16th, The Guardian
Half of GCSE students in state schools hit government
target
October 15th, The Guardian
Look East: Why Chinese lessons are
booming
October 8th, The Independent
Degrees
'rely on private pupils'
October 7th, BBC News
Why aren’t students learning Chinese?
October 1st, The Independent
September 2009
Use
It Or Lose It? Study Suggests The Brain Can Remember
A "Forgotten" Language
September 25th, MediLexicon
News
Half of pupils shun foreign languages: EU
data
September 24th, Yahoo News
Auf Wiedersehen, dept?
September 22nd, The Guardian
Toddlers can pick up languages in 20
months
September 9th, Mail online
Interested in teaching the Diploma in 2011?
September 9th, The Diploma (website)
August 2009
Students opt for maths and economics
August 20th, The Independent
A levels: Numbers up for maths
August 20th, Sec Ed
A levels: maths and science increasingly
popular
August 20th, The Telegraph
A levels: education gap 'widening'
August 20th, The Telegraph
A level choices: Pupils pick subjects to
impress
August 20th, The Guardian
Four out of ten trainees quit teaching early, report
warns
August 14th, The Independent
Three teachers at award-winning school suspended 'for
helping students cheat in GCSEs'
August 11th, Daily Mail
Ole! Spanish elbows German out of foreign languages
classroom
August 8th, The Herald
Primary
dances to an Albanian tune
August 7th, Times Educational Supplement
University of Cambridge - Languages for
youngsters
August 6th, Times Higher Education Supplement
Kids mind language
August 5th, Barry and District News
Record exam results pile pressure on
universities
August 5th, The Herald
Exam board poised to withdraw from 'poor man's A-level'
diplomas
August 1st, The Telegraph
July 2009
Language Skills 'Boost Employability And Earning
Potential.
July 31st,
Holborn Training
Too slow GCSE reforms put this year's results in doubt,
says regulator
July 31st,
Daily Mail
Too slow GCSE reforms put this year's results in doubt,
says regulator
July 30th,
Community Newswire
Translate your masters degree into
practice
Too slow GCSE reforms put this year's results in doubt,
says regulator
July 29th,
TopUniversities.com
Too slow GCSE reforms put this year's results in doubt,
says regulator
July 20th,
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills newsletter
Schools
must put more positive spin on languages, says
Estyn
Too slow GCSE reforms put this year's results in doubt,
says regulator
July 17th,
Times Educational Supplement
Second language 'great for employers'
Too slow GCSE reforms put this year's results in doubt,
says regulator
July 9th,
Jobs News Wire
Bringing language learning to life'
July 9th, The Independent
Primary pupils 'have natural languages
enthusiasm''
July 9th, SFS Group
Language
teaching needs more joined-up thinking
July 7th, Cambridge News
Children abandon languages after GCSE requirement
stopped
July 6th, The Times
A fifth of primary schools 'will struggle to meet 2010
languages target''
July 6th, The Guardian
Pupils are a class apart with Anglo-French
tale
July 3rd, The Scotsman
Drop in
modern language learning'
July 3rd, BBC News
London firms offered 2012 language
training'
July 2nd, Small Business
Mind your languages
July 2nd, Times Higher Education Supplement
Bright
students 'shun languages''
July 1st, BBC News
Links into Languages'
July 1st, Cambridge Supplement