Voices
What difference can a foreign language make to the hopes of young footballers in the UK? A school student interviewed Martyn Heather, Head of Education at the Premier League, to find out.
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Kathryn Board and Teresa Tinsley, authors of the 2016 Language Trends survey, break down its findings.
Rae Seymour, who develops education resources at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), encourages primary school teachers to use Shakespeare and theatre when teaching young learners.
Fewer school students in England are choosing to study languages past the age of 16. Kathryn Board and Teresa Tinsley, authors of the Language Trends survey, explain why.
Teacher Wilma explains the benefits of using technology in class and tells us about some useful tools.
Good intentions alone will not help us introduce languages such as Chinese and Arabic into the curriculum. If we want to thrive in a global society, we need to take firm action now.
Researchers Teresa Tinsley and Kathryn Board give us a summary of ‘Languages for the Future’, a report – published yesterday – on which languages the UK needs to learn now.
Ceri Morgan of Ofsted, the UK's official body for inspecting schools and standards in education, explains some of the counterbalancing tensions in maths education.
Advances in technology offer the potential to expand access to education, but will online learning ever replace the need for teachers?