A French 16-year-old who published a fan-translation of the last Harry Potter novel was jailed overnight and now faces charges for copyright infringement.
The boy, who wanted to save French children from spoilers, translated Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when he discovered that the official French translation would take three months. He had grown concerned that bilingual readers […]

Linguanet Europa, the multilingual online resource centre for foreign language learning co-ordinated by CILT, has won the Editors’ Choice and World Languages Classics Award from MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and On-line Teaching).
Linguanet Europa, which gives multilingual access to over 3500 catalogued online resources, is being developed by 24 organisations from 20 European countries.

As another school year begins, the international dimension in education has never been more important. With television, Internet, international sport and travel all bringing the wider world into everyone’s daily experience global issues have become part of young people’s lives as never before.
The Global Gateway offers a one-stop shop for teachers and educationalists wanting to […]

The latest edition of the ELT Diary on the Guardian website discusses:

a proposed ‘integration test’ for immigrants to Australia
a crackdown on bogus teaching degrees in South Korea
accreditation of language schools in Britain

Read the article on the Guardian website.

The monthly Subject Centre e-bulletin gives information on events, news items and newly available resources.
Topics covered include language and linguistics conferences, UCAS statistics, the teaching of pidgin and creole studies and Higher Education Academy Exchange magazine.
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A national collection of library books in minority languages is to be set up in Dundee, says this report on the BBC website. It aims to improve services for migrant workers from places such as Eastern Europe and the far east.
They and their families will be able to request books from the catalogue from their […]

Brighton College has become the first private school in Britain to go into partnership with the Chinese government to promote the teaching of Mandarin and Chinese culture.
The school has already made the teaching of Mandarin compulsory for all three-, four- and five-year-olds in its preparatory wing from September.
As a result of an agreement signed with […]

Opposition politicians yesterday welcomed news that a new BBC Gaelic digital service could be up and running by early next year.It followed confirmation that the BBC Trust is to launch a public value assessment later this month to evaluate the possibility of launching the service.
The trust’s Public Value Test (PVT) will begin on August 16, […]

The Scottish Learning Festival is arguably one of the best the best and free education events in the world, heavy on the quality seminars and with a fine selection of innovations on offer in the exhibition. You can now join in the fun on the SLF Facebook Group and keep abreast of what’s going on.
The […]