The Scottish Education Awards 2007 are now open for nominations. The Awards, first launched in 2001, are going from strength to strength with a record number of nominations last year. The awards are open to all Scottish publicly funded schools and pre-school establishments, and will again include categories covering Local Authorities, Schools and Teaching/Support staff. […]

The annual celebration of Manx language, culture and heritage has kicked off in the Isle of Man.
The festival lasts until 1 December and is called Cooish - which is the Manx Gaelic word for ‘chat’ or ‘conversation’.
Read about the festival on the BBC website.

Pupils are to be encouraged to remain in school until 18 under plans which were set out by Jack McConnell on Saturday. As part of his plans for education, he also stated that foreign language learning should start from primary three. The proposals target languages as one of the poorest areas of performance by Scots […]

On Friday 24 November 2006, the BBC hosted a live laptop link-up with pupils in a school in Beijing.
As part of the link-up, children from a school in London put their questions to the students in Beijing. Read the article on the BBC website on to find out more about the two schools that took […]

The most recent issue of the Scottish Languages Review is now online. Just visit the Scottish CILT website to read the current issue and all previous issues.

Canada’s opposition Liberal party said last night it will support Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s motion recognising Quebec as a nation within Canada.
Read the full story on the Herald website.

A police officer who learned Polish to work with the growing immigrant community in Wrexham has been honoured.
Read the full story on the BBC website.

Parlez-vous? Not any more if the decline in modern language study continues. The Times Online has the full article.

The modern languages crisis is no longer confined to schools; once-popular subjects are in terminal decline in the FE sector too, college principals warned today. Read the article in the Education Guardian.

As modern foreign language provision will be required for all Key Stage 2 children by 2010, primary schools are starting to introduce a more global theme to their teaching. Read the article in the Education Guardian.