Thank you for letting us have the opportunity to talk about how bringing teachers, universities, civic leaders and community groups together can begin to make a difference in how multilingualism and language learning are promoted

Yesterday I spoke at the House of Lords to members of APPG Modern Languages about the Multilingual Manchester project that I founded and led at School of Arts, Languages and Culture The University of Manchester and about the Manchester City of Languages initiative that continues its legacy.

⬇️ This article by Sascha Stollhans is an example of the discussions taking place across the education sector following the recent House of Lords debate on the importance of eductional trips and exchanges. The APPG is very keen to hear views from stakeholders!

Ian Collen 🇪🇺 on BBC Radio Ulster this morning explaining that children in NI are not getting the access to language learning opportunities that school children elsewhere do and what can be done to change this #EducationForAll 🔈bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Great to see interest from schools more widely in the WoLLoW project. Their approach, focussing on enjoyment, curiosity, culture, language patterns and links to other subjects, has caught the attention of many educators and sector leads. theworldoflanguages.co.uk

.UCFL @ucflangs.bsky.social welcomes the call by Baroness Coussins APPG Modern Languages to recognise the importance of language skills for the economy and for individuals' quality of life, including the urgent need for strategic support and protection of languages degrees in HE 👉 parliamentlive.tv/event/index/5c…

Only 5.8% of pupils with a home language took a qualification in their heritage language in 2023 (JCG 2023) So sad! We need to encourage more students gaining qualifications in their home languages by talking more about their benefits! #languages #mfl

Research from The British Academy on the benefits of languages cited in the House of Lords by Baroness Coussins hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2024-05-…

Love to see it! Great to see creative language work in action - congratulations St Bede's College and The World of Languages and Languages of the World

Raising awareness of this webinar from Department for Education -funded National Consortium for Languages Education initiative. Support is often lacking for bilingual students' home/heritage language education - it would be great if all schools were able to tap into a more joined-up approach as will be explored here.

Mixed news about the future of Gaelic in Scotland bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Congratulations to all schools, teachers and students! The Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators puts creativity back into the languages classroom, and over 16,000 students in 300 schools across the UK took part in its fourth edition. Press release: queens.ox.ac.uk/news/anthea-be…