'Learn Welsh too' migrants urged

Migrant workers are being urged to learn both Welsh and English to help them settle in Wales.

Source: BBC website, 21 March 2007

Letter from Michael Hutt, SOAS

Michael Hutt draws attention to the growing interest in non-European languages, which is often unnoticed by commentators.
Education Guardian
20 March 2007

Times Education Supplement coverage of Dearing report

Foreign languages to be manadory in primary schools. But report suggests spicing up schemes of work rather than compulsion for secondary schools.
Helen Ward, pp. 12-13

Reaction: Letter from Husain Akhar 'Madatory languages are a mistake' (p. 28).

Comment: Dearing's language makes sense, p. 30

Times Education Supplement (Subscription required)
Friday 16 March 2007

Alison Piper

Alison Piper, who died in December 2006, was the external evaluator for the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. Her friend Philippa Dolphin remembers her in an article published in today's Guardian.

The Guardian, 16 March 2007

Bilingual classes 'raise results'

Bilingual children who learn in their family's language as well as English do better at school, research suggests
Research by Dr Charmian Kenner, Goldsmiths College

Source: BBC website, Thursday 15th March 2007

UK must embrace 'modern' English, report warns

The UK needs to abandon its outdated attitudes to English and embrace new forms of the language to maintain its influence in the global market, the leftwing thinktank Demos said today.
Liz Ford

Thursday, March 15, 2007
EducationGuardian.co.uk

Grammar course for Tefl teachers launched

A course that allows people to brush up on their grammar before taking an English language teaching course is being launched today.
Liz Ford

Wednesday March 14, 2007
EducationGuardian.co.uk