In the East Midlands, the University of Leicester is the only provider of Italian at degree level. An now they are under threat. Please sign the petition:
www.change.org/p/save-moder...
20.11.2025 08:38 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Help the the University of Leicester and the University of Nottingham save languages. Links in comments.
17.11.2025 15:31 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Language cold spots are emerging: the East Midlands provision is vulnerable if threats of closure at Leicester and Nottingham are carried out.
Please sign their petitions! Links in comments.
15.11.2025 15:25 — 👍 22 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
You might have heard that the University of Nottingham plans to suspend all languages courses. This is very disappointing and heartbreaking.
Here you can find their petition aimed at protecting Modern Languages at Nottingham. You can show your support by signing it.
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
10.11.2025 12:26 — 👍 24 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 1
The University of Nottingham has announced the suspension of all Modern Languages and Cultures (MLC) programmes from September 2026.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
07.11.2025 17:42 — 👍 17 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 1
The University Council for Languages (UCFL) welcomes the publication of the Curriculum and Assessment Review and the Government’s response.
Read our reflection here: university-council-for-languages.org/2025/11/07/a...
07.11.2025 11:12 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Have you seen ALL's response to the CAR Report?
You can read it here: www.all-languages.org.uk/wp-content/u...
06.11.2025 09:08 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Read the article by Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Charles Forsdick in the Language Learning special collection on languages education in the school curriculum in England to learn more.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
03.11.2025 19:27 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Language Education in the Curriculum
Explore the article collection: Language Education in the Curriculum. Published in The Language Learning Journal.
What effect do school policies have on uptake and achievement in languages at Key Stage 4?
If you are interested to learn more, read @karenforbes.bsky.social article as well as Zhu Hua, Elin Arfon and Ann-Marie Hunter’s article
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rll...
31.10.2025 19:35 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
On Monday 20th October, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages held a meeting reviewing recent reports and data on the challenges facing languages in the UK, from schools to universities and beyond.
22.10.2025 07:42 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
It's European Day of Languages today! 😀
"Languages open hearts and minds" - to connect us, inspire new ideas and broaden horizons.
26.09.2025 13:46 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Excellent letter.
23.08.2025 15:11 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
This is excellent. Languages matter for all kinds of reasons, and governments should be pressed to facilitate and encourage their take-up in schools and universities.
24.08.2025 08:16 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The APPG Modern Languages has shared a Letter to The Times by Baroness Coussins, Co-chair of the APPG, in response to their recent leading article arguing falling languages uptake narrows young people's horizons (www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...)
23.08.2025 13:22 — 👍 12 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 4
Spanish surpasses French in popularity among students in historic first for language studies, according to the British Academy.
New GCSE data shows that Spanish has overtaken French for the first time as the most popular language choice among students, following a sustained rise in entries of nearly 25% since 2020.
Spanish entries increased from around 109,594 in 2020 to 136,871 in 2025, while French uptake remained steady - climbing slightly from 132,036 in 2020 to 134,651 in 2024 before dipping to 132,808 this year.
The data is released today by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) and has been analysed by the British Academy, the national academy for the humanities and social sciences. It reveals wider trends in student choice across the curriculum.
SHAPE subjects (Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy) continue to make up more than half of all entries (54%) - a figure that has remained consistent since 2019.
Bit more on the Guardian liveblog here
www.theguardian.com/education/li...
21.08.2025 10:45 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Vicky Gough, British Council’s schools adviser, said: “We need the success of Spanish reflected across all languages through exchanges, cultural programmes and real-world connections that demonstrate why languages matter. [...] young people from less privileged backgrounds miss out on opportunities"
22.08.2025 08:01 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Lost in translation
Even in the language app era there are benefits to learning a foreign tongue
‘2023 polling for the @britishacademy.bsky.social found 71 per cent of Britons would support making language study compulsory in schools.’
Pleased to see this FT editorial makes the case for learning foreign languages
on.ft.com/4mP3rrf
16.08.2025 11:15 — 👍 44 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 1
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