More than just a homework club, out of school hours learning can encompass many activities including sports, the arts and voluntary activities. This resource offers many examples of what out of school hours learning can be and offers advice on planning and guidance materials.
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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 […]

The Scottish Funding Council is calling for a national debate on why and how we learn foreign languages after publishing a report into the supply and demand of modern language courses in colleges and universities.
Read more on this from Scottish Funding Council

Covering three major European languages (French, German and Italian), for the primary and secondary sector. Courses abroad give teachers the opportunity to brush up on their language skills while developing new teaching techniques and refreshing their knowledge of the country’s society and culture.
Teachers can apply for funding through the British Council to cover the cost of […]

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 […]

Gaelic’s effect on economic growth in Scotland is to be investigated by public agencies, reports the BBC website.
The study will look at how many organisations employ staff in posts where Gaelic is deemed to be an essential skill.
Meanwhile, Highland Council is to consider setting up a Gaelic translation unit.
The plan is to provide the authority […]

The Education Guardian reports that the government’s schools inspector has urged the Department for Children, Schools and Families to put more money into training primary school language teachers. The Ofsted report on the quality of initial teacher training (ITT) comes ahead of the introduction of language teaching for all primary pupils next year.
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Now recruiting for its eleventh year of training, the CILT/British Council Graduate Teacher Programme (GTP) continues to be one of the most prestigious teacher training programmes for native speakers of French, Spanish and German in the country.
The GTP is an employment-based route, where native speakers receive ‘on-the-job’ training in one of more than 40 training […]

The Education Guardian reports that the Prime Minister announced today a global fellowship programme, which will see 100 school and college leavers each year visiting some of the major countries in the new global economy, such as Brazil, China and India.
The £1.4m a year programme, developed by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the British […]

The BBC reports that First Minister Alex Salmond will pledge an extra £7.5m to safeguard the future of the Gaelic language this week.
Mr Salmond will unveil the funding increase when he delivers the annual Sabhal Mor Ostaig lecture on Wednesday. The money will be spent on education, the national plan for the language and also […]