1. Press release: Routes into Languages announces regional consortia members

Press release, 8 May 2007

Four innovative regional consortia have been selected to increase the take up of languages in their area. They will focus particularly on encouraging students to continue studying languages in school and then at university.

The funding for the three-year consortium projects comes through Routes into Languages, a 4.5 million programme funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), in partnership with the Higher Education Academy (HEA) Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, with the University Council of Modern Languages, and CILT, the National Centre for Languages. The Routes into Languages programme is coordinated by a team at the University of Southampton, directed by Professor Michael Kelly.

Professor Kelly comments: "We have been astonished at the imaginative ideas and the innovative activities that are proposed. The consortia will build on a lot of experience, and we expect they will produce a real 'sea change' in attitudes to language learning around the country."

Full details available on LLAS website