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Vive la difference!
Posted by Lucy under Cactus Languages Abroad
There’s a interesting article in The Guardian this week about how foreign exchange trips are in danger of dying-out because of new child protection rules: http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2287330,00.html. The new regulations will mean that foreign exchange hosts will be more closely screened than ever before.
This combined with the fact that record numbers of GCSE students dropped languages last [...]
Community languages sidelined
Posted by Lucy under Cactus Languages Abroad
Rowenna Davis has written an interesting article in The Guardian today about the national shortfall in teachers of community languages. It’s an issue that has been in the news repeatedly in recent weeks but one for which there doesn’t appear to be an easy solution.
Ofsted reported last year that only 35 people in the UK were training to [...]
Tags: community languages, shortfall, the guardian
Language Travel Magazine, February 2008
Posted by Lucy under Cactus TEFL, In the Press
Cactus announced a scholarship last year in memory of friend and colleague, Suzanne Furstner. The scholarship prize of a four-week CELTA course and two-weeks Spanish language training in Spain was announced at a special evening at The Guardian offices in London. This news was included in February’s issue of Language Travel Magazine.
Tags: celta, language travel magazine, scholarship, spanish, suzanne furstner, the guardian
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