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What an amazing year!  Advocacy! Achievements! Aspirations! As we celebrate our first year, we would like to share with you some highlights from NCLE and the Language Hubs. And this is just the beginning of the story! So, what is our story about? Who are the characters involved? And what challenges do we face? The … Continued

On Monday 18 March, the Institut français du Royaume-Uni and Ambassador Hélène Duchêne launched Francophonie on the Road.  This initiative, created to support the National Consortium for Languages Education, a Department for Education programme aimed at promoting foreign modern language learning in England, will offer students from 20 state schools the opportunity to take part in … Continued

After a successful Language World 2024 conference, we as the NCLE team would like to say massive thanks to our partner, ALL, for organising such a stimulating and engaging conference. Thank you to the fantastic pool of speakers and to all the attendees of LW 2024. We would like to also thank our NCLE Language … Continued

In late November 2023, the Goethe-Institut London organised a four-day educational trip to Berlin for decisionmakers in education from the UK. With the aim to strengthen the status of German as a foreign language in the UK by providing an insight into the German educational system, foreign language teaching, as well as German culture, representatives … Continued

On UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day 2024, which celebrates learners’ universal right to study their heritage languages, Professor Li Wei, Chair in Applied Linguistics and Director and Dean of IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, wrote an article celebrating home, heritage and community languages (HHCLs) and the initiatives of the NCLE to improve HHCL … Continued

The £14.9 million programme will develop language teaching across England’s schools through a centre of excellence, addressing the steep decline in students taking foreign languages at GCSE and A level.