3 December 2024 (Institut français)
The Institut français d’Ecosse is happy to be part Languages Week Scotland!
Now in its seventh year, Languages Week Scotland 2025 on the theme “Our multilingual futures” will take place from 3 to 8 February at the Institut français d’Écosse.
Come to discover the diversity and richness of languages in Scotland with activities for all ages! There will be conferences, a film screening and a reading for children.
Join us for a fascinating exchange of personal experiences, ideas, poetic practices and languages with multilingual and Scotland-based poets Elodie Laügt, Paul Malgrati and Anne Pia! Event to be held in English, French and Scots.
Come and meet Tania Czajka and her Parisian garden friends as they embark on a charming bilingual adventure in the cold French winter. Tania will perform a short puppet show.
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22 August 2024 (The Guardian)
I reflect on GCSE results day with a sense of pride tinged with sadness. Proud because this year’s cohort achieved fantastic results, given the challenges they have faced since the pandemic, but sad because for many it will be the last time they study humanities (languages, history and religious and classical studies) subjects.
I won’t hide my bias: I studied Spanish, history and philosophy and ethics at A-level, and Latin and religious studies at GCSE, so I’m a strong advocate for the humanities. Yet, they’re steadily becoming an unpopular choice, with only 38% of students taking at least one humanities course in the 2021/22 cohort compared to just under 60% from 2003/4 to 2015/16.
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