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Start 2025 right by listening tomorrow at 10am to Woman’s Hour for a special episode dedicated to walking. You’ll hear me on the show alongside a number of other women talking about why walking matters. Hope you enjoy. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

🔍 Investigation: Ministers have scrapped funding for computing hubs and are scaling back similar support in modern foreign languages, with the 'last-minute decision' putting school finances and jobs in jeopardy Full story 🔽 buff.ly/3C0pQA6

The last two policy papers in our series are now out. First, one on policy concerning the Welsh language by Dave Sayers Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social LSP Policy Journal

And then one on how deaf education in the UK could be transformed. But there is more to come! Watch out for a postface by myself and Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social and then some follow-up opinion pieces LSP Policy Journal Dr Leanne Henderson Emma Humphries

📣 calling headteachers in independent schools in England! Have your say. The Language Trends England 2025 survey is now live! Complete the survey, takes less than 10 minutes. Deadline 7 Feb: bit.ly/3DZgp4w NICILT Centre for Language Education Research at Queen's National Consortium for Languages Education Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social Professor Arlene Holmes-Henderson MBE

Language is power. To silence languages is to silence histories, cultures, and ways of being. Cardiff University’s Modern Languages School is one of the best—so why are they trying to shut it down? Stand with students and staff. Sign the petition and resist.

Congratulations to Patrick McGuinness and Stephen Romer for winning this year's Scott Moncrieff Prize! At Bristol Translates 2024, participants in Patrick McGuinness's workshop were lucky enough to explore these poems by Gilles, who joined the students on the final day.

The postface by Wendy Bennett & Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social in the Languages in UK Education special collection highlights key themes shaping the future of language education in the UK. What are the main takeaways? 🧵👇lspjournal.com/post/languages…

‘Multilingualism was so ordinary in 14th-century England that not everyone would have had a reliable sense of the boundaries between the country’s different languages.’ John Gallagher John Gallagher on the influence of French on medieval English: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

📚 Our Languages in UK Education collection continues—with a new series of opinion articles. In this opening piece, John Worne calls for a shift in how we value language skills in the UK. 🧵👇lspjournal.com/post/the-uk-s-…

Championing modern languages and linguistics and shaping the future of language policy in the UK murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/qa/championing… via Murray Edwards College

mhra.org.uk/news/2025/04/2… Read about our MHRA-funded project to produce readable summaries of languages research for policymakers Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social

Barbara Burns talks to Olivia (Liv) Glaze, MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoc Researcher, and her mentors Wendy Ayres-Bennett Wendy Bennett and Charles Forsdick Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social, about the project linked to the 'Languages and Policy' report. mhra.org.uk/news/2025/04/2…

I am so delighted to announce that we are #hiring! A two year full-time teaching and research post in French 🇫🇷 Come and join our big and beautiful School of Languages, Cultures and Societies in leafy Leeds! Please post to your networks. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i…

The LSP series on Languages in UK Education is back! Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social Neil Kenny explores alternative qualifications in languages post-GCSE. With A level choices narrowing, would a level 3 certificate allow more students to continue language learning? lspjournal.com/post/time-for-…

How do we meet the challenge of language teacher shortages? Read Lisa Panford's new thought-provoking piece in LSP on the recruitment of teachers of Colour: lspjournal.com/post/the-recru… Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social

Jonathan McBride looks at the power of stories in the language learning classroom in this week's LSP opinion piece. He brings interesting international insights: lspjournal.com/post/the-power… Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social

Article in Issue 3/1 2025 of #Encounters by Julie Boéri & Mona Baker @monabaker11.bsky.social lays out editors vision & "invites all scholars interested in the study and practice of translation and their role in knowledge production and construction to join" the editors in realising this vision