A Spanish course for youngsters is set to return to a Lothians football club due to popular demand.
Read the full story on the Scotsman website.

More students are taking up “hard to recruit” subjects at Edinburgh University than in the past five years, according to new education figures released yesterday. They show encouraging rises at Edinburgh in subjects such as engineering and European languages - courses which had previously been among those that tended to be under-subscribed.
Read the full article […]

Hundreds of road signs are being replaced in Cornwall with dual English and Cornish language versions.
The Kerrier District Council policy to replace old or missing signs is being coupled with a new move to see where the Cornish language can also be used.
Read the full article on the BBC website.

From my continuing live blog of the eTwinning annual conference…
Teachers’ main error with animation is that they, or the kids, start out with an idea that is too complex to achieve. If it’s too complex it will defeat you. Here are some simple ideas for animation:

How tos: How to make a mummy (useful afterwards as […]

School:Don’t talk to anyone while you work. Don’t copy the work of those who’ve done the same thing before you. Make sure you have all the stuff you need to know in your head.
Business or Work:Talk to everyone, try to copy what they do and build on it, know how to find out the information […]

From my eTwinning conference liveblog we see that Heppell’s hypercarding again, and hitting the nerve where it matters.
School buildings, timetables where one subject is studied for a month at a time, libraries made from honeycomb, air-filled balloons to give privacy to learners, people taking risks because they realise that the riskiest thing they can do […]

From the eTwinning conference in Brussels comes news of a joint blog project between two primary schools in Ireland and Malta.
Once Upon A Blog also hosts audio files made by both schools.

  eTwinning Annual Conference 
Ján Figuel is the Member of the European Commission in charge of education, training, culture and youth and his main opening point at the eTwinning annual conference is this:
The internet is still used across Europe mostly for information gathering. Its power to allow individuals to publish their thoughts to the […]

  Belgium - Europe 
Coming up today and tomorrow will be some live blogging by LTS New Technologies Specialist Ewan McIntosh from the Belgian capital, Brussels, covering some of the amazing projects that are being showcased, the people behind eTwinning and how you can get involved.
Ewan’s highlights will be to capture the Stephen Heppell talk on […]

What is believed to be the first bilingual newspaper in Scotland has been launched for the Highlands’ growing Polish community. The free Gazeta z Highland has been published by Golspie-based weekly the Northern Times.
Read this story on the BBC website.