As a result of the UK-German Youth Review, the new, bilateral
‘UK-German youth links’ service has been set up by bringing together my
services and activities as UK-German Links Adviser and our ongoing
project, ‘the-voyage: british german connection’,
and enhancing our joint resources with the help of new staff, a
UK-German youth links officer, and an information officer.
As we […]

The MFLE has received plenty of attention in the national ICT newsletter from Becta, the British Education Communications and Technology Agency. Made In Scotland accompanies another article on the VerbCast from Partners in Excellence in this ICT in Secondary Magazine.

Technology is getting easier and its rapid development is changing language education, making it possible to link the classroom to the real world beyond. Read the full article in EducationGuardian.co.uk

The Association of Language Learning is launching a new competition for language teachers from all sectors, with an exciting prize. It’s called the ALL International Challenge Award 2006 and it certainly offers an unusual challenge.
ALL is collaborating with MondoChallenge, the company which specialises in career breaks in the developing world, to give the winner the […]

MFLE has just unveiled a new section called A Curriculum for Excellence where Jane Renton, HMIe Modern Languages, talks about the initiative and explains how it will affect modern languages.

The Modern Foreign Languages Environment (MFLE) has already started
hosting video diaries of Foreign Language Assistants, spilling the
beans on the ups and downs of their year. An
update for February has just been posted.
Soon the
MFLE will be launching online, Virtual FLAs to help
out those areas that are not fortunate enough to have a real live
living one. It’s […]

A flourishing future for the Gaelic language is now a step closer, as the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act comes into force today. The legislation is designed to promote the use of Gaelic, secure the status of the language and ensure it has a long-term future. Central to the provisions of the Act is the creation […]

If you’re interested in ICT then you’ll love the sessions on offer at Language World 2006, run by ALL, this April 7-8. There’s a strong Scottish contingent sharing their story at the conference:
Using photo-stories to develop writing skills, Mark Pentleton
Working together to share best practice and resources…today and in the future!, Helen Myers
Lights, camera, action: […]

Via PointBlog
comes news of this competition associated with the 2nd Languages
Festival, taking place in Lille this April. If groups of three or four
students can get together to create a multilingual blog in their school
and send the organisers the address before March 20th, then they (and
their teacher, of course stand a chance of winning a […]

If you’re interested in taking part in an online discussion about how
we could make the transition between learning in high school and
learning in Higher Education, then please do join me at 11.55pm GMT
Thursday night until 1am GMT Friday morning at LanguageLabUnleashed.
This is a live audio broadcast from Scotland, USA and Canada and you
can take part […]