The European Commission have announced that the Juvenes Translatores competition will be taking place in 2008 for the second year running.
The 2008 Juvenes Translatores competition will be held on 27 November at secondary schools in each of the EU’s 27 Member States, and will be open to all pupils born in 1991. One winner from […]

Dunoon Grammar School  is delighted to be welcoming 45 pupils and four teachers from Hardenberg Gymnasium in Germany, to stay for eight days. The visit this year is a very special one, as it was 20 years ago that teachers Lesley Clark and Sheena McKillop started the Exchange of pupils between the two schools.
In that […]

British Council Scotland reports that teachers have the chance to add an international dimension to their school curriculum with a free introductory course being offered by DFID Global School Partnerships (DGSP).
The online course, Introduction to Global School Partnerships, provides an outline of the principles and practices of global dimension learning partnerships between schools in the […]

Following highly successful group study visits last year, LTS is organising new group visits to Ontario, Canada, and to Santa Cruz, USA.
Both will take place from Monday 13 to Friday 17 October 2008.
More details for the visits and the application forms are available from the International Education website.
The closing date for applications for both visits is […]

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 […]

A Memorandum of Understanding with Chinese universities has been signed by the University of Aberdeen and the University of Abertay Dundee.  The agreements, signed during Education Secretary, Fiona Hyslop’s visit to China this month, opens the way for stronger research collaboration and exchange between the Scottish universities and their Chinese counterparts. Hyslop said: ‘China presents […]

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 […]

Chris Gallacher from the British Council talked about eLanguages and the capacity to make links and share information and resources.
The eLanguages website allows you to host your own section, see your partner’s information, learn about ICT and learn another language and culture.
You can explore a model project, find out more about why teachers are engaging […]

The international dimension of learning, says the British Council’s John Low, is all about belonging to a community. It’s about seeing the importance and opportunity within an international community. It’s about preparing youngsters for jobs we can’t visualise in places we don’t know yet. The British Council’s Global Gateway programme helps set up the kind […]

A stronger link between Scotland and China is the aim of a planned visit to the Far East by the education secretary, Fiona Hyslop, reports the Scotsman. News of the trip emerged as Ms Hyslop prepared today to meet Scottish students who will take part in Easter and summer schools in China.
Increasing numbers of schools […]