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Read here about policy with relevance for languages and intercultural skills in secondary education. For information on language policy and strategy in general, go to the main policy area of this website.

Education for All: The future of education and training for 14-19-year-olds (Nuffield Foundation, June 2009) is a recent report significant to this sector, arising from an independent 6-year review of 14-19 education, the largest review of this phase since the 1959 Crowther Report. 

Find out more about this report and other important developments, and what they mean for you, by selecting policy articles from the listing below.

Policy articles:

Revised guidance on disapplication of the National Curriculum at Key Stage 4 for specific purposes under section 363 of the Education Act 1996

01/09/02

[Policy] The first formal authorisation of disapplication, for individual pupils, from languages in Key Stage 4.

Nuffield Inquiry into Languages

01/05/00

[Policy] The Nuffield Inquiry into Languages made 15 recommendations for change, the better to meet the UK’s requirements for languages in the 21st century.

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