THE latest chapter in the growth of Skye’s Gaelic college, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, will unfold tomorrow with the launch of its £7.1m centre for creative and cultural industries. Read the Herald article for more information.
The BBC reports that a drive to encourage more students to study languages is being launched after a drop in undergraduate numbers. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) is putting forward £4.5m to enable universities to hold summer events and work with schools. The drive comes as people are being encouraged to brush up their linguistic skills on European Day of Languages.
Read the full story on the BBC website.
Keep an eye on the MFLE blog from 5pm today, as Ewan McIntosh, New Technologies Research Practitioner, will be blogging from the European Award for Languages ceremony at the Scottish Parliament.
The TES Scotland reports that at the Scottish Learning Festival this week Peter Peacock, Scottish Education Minister, told the audience that he was working on new measures that would put under-performing teachers back on probation. He anticipated that the inspectorate’s interim review of the national agreement would find that ’some teachers still exist in a mindset suited to the pre-McCrone era’.
Blog postings about SETT – The Scottish Learning Festival, can all be found here, collected by technorrati:
http://www.technorati.com/search/sett06
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Blog posts about TeachMeet (bloggers, and others get together at the festival):
http://www.technorati.com/search/teachmeet06
Flickr: Photos tagged with teachmeet06
Official SETT Weblog
Montrose students have taken advantage of the MFLE’s blogging and podcasting space to upload their first attempt at podcasting auf Deutsch. You can listen over here on their blog. It’s entertaining, making good use of the languages assistant and some ‘unique’ sound effects. Don’t forget to leave a comment and let them know what you think. Your comments will make a great difference to the students. 
Ten thousand students – including children as young as eight – have taken innovative new courses which aim to reverse the decline in language learning. The qualifications – called Asset Languages and run by the Oxford and Cambridge exam board OCR – aim to make language learning accessible by offering a ‘ladder’ of bite-sized courses similar to music grades.
Read the article in the Independent to find out more – and tell us what you think.
A ten year old on holiday in France grasps the usefulness of being able to use French – featured in this article in the Independent.
Activa Solutions, one of several UK suppliers of digital language resources are currently touring the UK. The company is offering schools, colleges and local advisors an opportunity to get hands on with Symposium its latest digital language lab solution, LogoLAB its network wide, self study, language support resource and Weblingua an e-Learning lesson builder for languages.
Activa Solutions will have an exhibition presence at the forthcoming SETT - The Scottish Learning Festival 2006 (STAND A50) and will demonstrate LogoLAB and Weblingua at the event, offer personal demonstrations of all its products and release video CDs to all guests that visit the stand.
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