Languages in the press
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Guardian | Why students need a global awareness and understanding of other cultures - 25.09.2012 |
| Guardian | Cool, laid back - Germans are even finding friends in Britain - 18.09.2012 |
| BBC | GCSEs replaced by 'English Bac' in key subjects - 17.09.2012 |
| Guardian | How to teach ... European Day of Languages - 03.09.2012 |
| Guardian | Schnell, schnell! Let the German A-level fightback start here - 17.08.2012 |
| ITV News | Children taught two languages at state primary school - 24.07.2012 |
| Evening Standard | Has London now become the capital of the world? - 09.07.2012 |
| Social-Hire.com | It's Official - German Language Skills Are Most Sought After In UK Labour Market - 05.07.2012 |
| Department for Education | The importance of studying languages in school - 28.06.2012 |
| Independent | Britain's children left behind in languages by the time they're three - 13.06.2012 |
| Independent | Compulsory language lessons planned for primary schools - 11.06.2012 |
| Huffington Post | Michael Gove to make foreign language learning compulsory in primary schools - 10.06.2012 |
| BBC | New curriculum 'to make languages compulsory from seven' - 10.06.2012 |
| The Guardian | Foreign languages to be taught at school from age seven - 10.06.2012 |
| Association for Psychological Science | Speaking Your Mind - Observer Vol.25, No.5 May/June, 2012 |
| The Telegraph | Four-year-olds to start learning two foreign languages - 18.05.12 |
| BBC | Being bilingual 'boosts brain power' - 01.05.12 |
| The Wall Street Journal | The Bilingual Brain Is Sharper and More Focused, Study Says - 30.04.12 |
| Wired | Thinking in a Foreign Language Makes Decisions More Rational - 24.04.12 |
| British Chamber of Commerce | Boost exports further by improving businesses’ language skills and international connections - 21.4.2012 |
| The Guardian | Tongue-tied Britain needs to learn the right lingo - 12.04.2012 |
| The Telegraph | UK economy needs schoolchildren to learn languages, BCC says - 12.04.2012 |
| The Telegraph | Language skills are being lost in translation - 10.04.2012 |
| The Guardian | Using social media as a language learning tool - 10.04.12 |
| The Telegraph | One in 40 UK diplomats fluent in language of country in which they work - 10.04.2012 |
| The Guardian | England's schools revolution: a progress report, two years on - 10.04.12 |
| BBC | All children should learn foreign languages, say peers - 22.03.12 |
| The Guardian | Study reveals words' Darwinian struggle for survival - 21.03.12 |
| Discovery News | Are Some Brains Better at Learning Languages? - 19.03.12 |
| The New York Times | Why Bilinguals Are Smarter - 17.03.12 |
| The Guardian | Experience: I can speak 50 languages - 16.03.12 |
| BBC | Foregoing French and giving up German: Are 'new' languages the answer? - 15.03.12 |
| The Telegraph | More teenagers to take GCSEs in foreign languages - 15.03.12 |
| Gazette | Castle School students in Thornbury go the extra mile to learn German - 13.03.2012 |
| Welt Online | Monkey Business - 06.03.12 |
| The Local | Adult German language learners on the rise - 04.03.12 |
| Daily Star | Necessity of learning foreign languages - 01.03.12 |
| Reuters | Want German lessons in Athens? Join the line! - 24.02.12 |
| BBC | The cult of the hyperpolyglot - 21.02.2012 |
| The Telegraph | Do we really need foreign language skills to flourish? - 06.02.12 |
| The Observer | Why do we continue to isolate ourselves by only speaking English? - 05.02.12 |
| The Guardian | German language finds English voice - 01.02.12 |
| Education News | UK Teenagers Skip Foreign Language Studies - 24.01.2012 |
| CfBT Education Trust | Report on the economic case for language learning, raising awareness of the economic cost to the UK of its comparative weakness in language learning. November 2011 |
| Huffington Post | Reluctance To Learn Foreign Language Causing UK Crisis, Says Wellington Head Teacher Anthony Seldon - 06.10.11 |
| The Guardian | Letters in response to Michael Gove's latest announcement about languages in schools - 03.10.11 |
| The Guardian | Pupils switching to more traditional GCSE subjects, survey finds - 31.08.11 |
| The Telegraph | Can you really judge a culture on its metaphors? - 03.06.11 |
| Evening Standard | Huge fall in numbers of schools where pupils must study a language - 21.02.11 |
| British Academy | Lost in Translation - British Academy warns of growing mismatch between supply and demand in language skills - 09.02.11 |
| Die Welt | James McCabe about Schadenfreude, Zeitgeist and new German loanwords he would like to introduce - 11.01.11 |
| CILT | New Ofsted report confirms good progress in primary languages - 11.01.11 |
| The Guardian | School league tables to include languages and humanities - 30.12.10 |
| Herald Scotland | Comment: ‘Sought-after language is not very difficult to learn’ - 25.11.10 |
| Herald Scotland | Alarm at number of schools dropping German - 25.11.10 |
| Daily Telegraph | Pupils to learn a language in GCSE shake-up - 24.11.10 |
| Daily Mail | German is the second most common language in Europe, according to Eurostat - 04.10.10 |
| Die Welt | Ausländische Spitzen-Studenten lieben Deutschland - 13.09.10 |
| The Telegraph | 'English Baccalaureate' to combat drop in academic GCSEs |
| DfE | DfE statement on language teaching policy - 26.08.10 |
| The Guardian | GCSE results: Ministers to review language teaching - 24.08.10 |
| The Guardian | Who still wants to learn languages? - 24.08.10 |
| The Guardian | Trapped in the Anglosphere, we've lost sight of next door - 20.08.10 |
| The Observer | To speak another language isn't just cultured, it's a blow against stupidity - 15.08.10 |
| The Observer | Language teaching: Entre nous, the idea we need only English is totally passé - 15.08.10 |
| Daily Telegraph | More British students 'to study abroad', says Willetts - 01.08.10 |
| Daily Telegraph | Denglish über alles - 28.07.10 |
| DW-World | Uber-cool English-speakers love using German words - 27.07.10 |
| Bristol Evening Post | Looking after the kids by Rod MacKinnon - 27.07.10 |
| BBC | Stowmarket High record a World Cup song at Arsenal FC - 02.07.10 |
| FAZ | Engländer, keine Angst vor den Deutschen! John le Carré's speech at the Think German conference - 25.06.2010 |
| London Evening Standard | Ich bin ein Londoner: why we're bonding with Germany - 24.05.10 |
| The Independent | More languages on the menu in schools - 20.05.10 |
| magazin-deutschland.de | Jonathan Franzen: Why Languages Must Change - 20.04.10 |
| Spiegel | Ten good reasons to learn German (in German) - 14.04.10 |
| CILT | Employers rank languages most desirable skill after IT - 26.02.10 |
| Der Spiegel | Gaststudenten in Deutschland - 23.02.10 |
| The Guardian | It is awful that we've given up on languages - 07.02.10 |
| CILT | Language Trends secondary |
| Der Spiegel | Hasta la vista, Deutschunterricht - 23.01.10 |
| BBC | Fewer schools hit language target - 20.01.10 |
| The Guardian | Languages are becoming 'twilight subjects' at state schools - 20.01.10 |
| The Guardian | Auf Wiedersehen German, Hola Spanish - 20.01.10 |
| The Independent | Schools abandon foreign language targets - 20.01.10 |
| The Independent | Comment: Languages need to be a priority for the pupils' and the nation's sake - 20.01.10 |
| The Independent | Why make learning a foreign language your New Year’s resolution? - 30.11.09 |
| BBC | Learning languages 'boosts brain' - 13.10.04 |