The Herald reports that an £8m centre for Gaelic creative industries aimed at supplying talent and training to the new Gaelic digital channel is due to be opened by First Minister Alex Salmond on Skye today.
Fas - Gaelic for growth - is the latest addition to Skye’s Gaelic College, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, and will provide […]

An ‘online hub’ for the Confucius Classrooms programme is now live. It forms a key part of the Confucius Classrooms vision in Scotland, to extend access to teaching and learning about Chinese language and culture and support growth of a learning community.
The hub has a public website, with information about the programme, resources and examples of […]

National Qualifications (NQ) have added the following resources to their resource database:
ESOL: Everyday Communication - Listening
ESOL: Everyday Communication - Writing
ESOL: Food in Scotland
ESOL: Holidays and School
ESOL: Language and Learning

Those teaching languages to the 14-19 age group can now draw on a fantastic new resource launched by CILT, the National Centre for Languages. The new microsite, Reshaping Languages has been designed to respond closely to the recommendations in Lord Dearing’s 2007 Languages Review, as part of a move to promote innovative practice across a […]

National Qualifications (NQ) have added the following resources to their resource database:
The Wider World for Higher
Lifestyles for Higher
Education and Work for Higher

National Qualifications (NQ) have added the following resources to their resource database:
Chinese Languages: 18 Mandarin resources
Chinese Languages: 9 Cantonese resources

The new Scottish CILT website is now live. It is a work in progress so some pages will be incomplete for a short while but everything should be finished in a few weeks.
In the meantime Scottish CILTwould welcome feedback on the new site and hope you like the redesign.
The website address will be unchanged: http://www.scilt.stir.ac.uk/

Organised by the University of St Andrews German department this competition is aimed at students at different levels.They can enter either as a team and perform role-play based on a picture story or they can choose to enter individually and read a poem or a short piece of prose.
For further information and entry forms, please contact […]