Turismo Valencia has just launched an exciting competition  for 14-18 year-old students of Spanish in the UK.
Students should submit a simple MS PowerPoint presentation in Spanish focused on Valencia as a tourist destination.
Three students will win a football course run by Valencia FC Foundation in early July and the chance to meet first team players and […]

The Scotsman reports on a new code of conduct from the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) which advises against friendly relationships with pupils using social networking or mobile phone technology.Â
Read the Scotsman article online.

Issue 17 of the Scottish Languages Review is now available on the Scottish CILT website.
To read online please visit Scottish CiLT Scottish Languages Review

To celebrate the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, the British Council is running two competitions under the theme of Collective Cultures to find out about young people’s experiences of other countries and cultures and developing relationships with people from different societies and backgrounds.
They are welcoming entries to a poster competition and a poetry competition, from young […]

National Qualifications has created a collection of useful support materials to help teachers, students and parents prepare for exams. These include:

The Sunday Herald exam guide 2008
2008 exam timetable
Past paper questions
Interactive study skills resource
Guide to National Qualifications
Popular revision resources

Find further information about these on the NQ exam preparation page

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 […]

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 […]

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/

The latest on the BBC website story about whether the oral exam in GCSE will be dropped:
Schools Minister Jim Knight has rejected as ‘ridiculous’ a claim that modern language GCSEs could be gained without candidates taking oral tests. A report in the Sunday Telegraph had suggested the exams watchdog was planning to drop orals because they […]

This is a final reminder to apply, or encourage a colleague to apply, for this year’s European Award for Languages.  The cut-off date for applications is Monday 4 February.
Special Prizes are made for the best projects involving community languages (£1,000 cash prize), French, German, and Spanish as well as primary and adult learners, languages for […]