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 […]

Poets from Israel and the UK have been brought together to take part in a project aimed at breaking down cultural barriers, the British Council reports.
The Poet to Poet Translation project brought together poets from Scotland, England, and the divided city of Jerusalem to explore the issues of nationality, history and identity in their work. […]

Time is running out to nominate an outstanding language initiative to receive a European Award for Languages. The deadline for this year’s Awards is 1 February 2008. The most innovative language initiatives will receive one of the prestigious awards, which recognise creativity in improving the quality of language teaching, and the ability to motivate students […]

Our regular news service will be suspended from today until Friday 4 January. We look forward to welcoming back all MFLE visitors in 2008 and hope for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for all.

This series of articles on the Education Guardian website talks about International Education and languages, globalism and sustainability.
Topics covered include:

International Education Week
International School Award
Globalism/Sustainability
Professional development
 Middle East links

Read more on the Education Guardian website.

A unique literary work will be launched in Edinburgh tomorrow night which brings together the Gaelic, Scots and English languages.
The Skye-based poet Angus Peter Campbell’s first poetry collection for 15 years contains 67 new Gaelic poems, alongside Scots-language versions by the renowned scholar and translator J Derrick McClure, and English-language translations by the poet himself.
In […]

Issue 16 of the Scottish Languages Review is now available on the Scottish CILT website.Â
Contents:
The SUFLRP Saga – 30 years of teaching French in Scottish universities 1970 - 2000 (Robin Adamson)
‘It is difficult now to remember just how undervalued language teaching was in French departments in UK universities in the 1960s and 70s…’
PDF file on […]

On Monday, 26th of November, a group of Russian, Latvian & Lithuanian writers will be reading from, and discussing, modern Russian, Latvian and Lithuanian fiction. The venue is Waterstone’s, Sauchiehall St, from 5.30pm - 6.30pm and admission is free. All are welcome.
For further details, call 0141 332 9105.