Students taking part in BBC News School Report presented their own news reports in a variety of languages. Working with BBC Radio Cymru, Ysgol Morgan Llwyd in Wrexham made the news in Welsh, five students from Elmfield School for Deaf Children in Bristol used sign language and Plockton High School in Ross-shire presented in Gaelic.
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A second consultation is currently taking place to assess the need for a question on languages spoken in the Population Census 2011.
Read about this on the CILT website.

The government is to pilot short, work-focused English language courses in London to increase the employability of migrants, it was announced yesterday.
Read this story on the Education Guardian website.

A blueprint to create a sustainable future for Gaelic in Scotland was unveiled today by Patricia Ferguson, the Minister with responsibility for the language. The National Plan for Gaelic provides government, local authorities, public bodies and the private and voluntary sectors with a five year road map to take the language forward.
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There are so many Polish people working in Selby that Selby College has now started running courses in Polish for English speakers.
Read this story on the York Press website.

If you don’t understand Makaton, you could soon be in the minority. Although created in the 1970s as a communications system for people with learning disabilities and speech disorders, Makaton’s combination of signs, gestures and printed symbols is now taught in many primary schools to spur the development of language in children.
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The BBC reports that bilingual children who learn in their family’s language as well as English do better at school, research suggests. Even second and third generation immigrant children with English as their stronger language could benefit. A team from Goldsmiths, University of London, analysed some primary school children in England using two languages in […]

HMIE has launched a new publication on information and communications technology in learning and teaching via the website of Anderson High School in Shetland.
In preparing the report, called ‘Improving Scottish Education: ICT in learning and teaching’, HM Inspectors visited pre-school centres, primary, secondary and special schools, colleges, and community learning and development centres, as well […]

Murder, incest, suicide. Why deny kids the fun of the classics?
Natalie Haynes makes her case in the Times Online.

The Council of Europe issued its second report on the situation of minority languages in the United Kingdom on 15 March 2007, which says more effort should be made in favour of Irish, Welsh and Scots/Ulster Scots/Scottish Gaelic.
Read this story on the Euractiv website.