Want more students to learn languages? Win over the parents!
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MFL Foreign languages
  • May 3, 2022
Children more willing to learn languages at GCSE and A-level if parents have positive attitudes, research says
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MFL Foreign languages
  • May 3, 2022
Parents more influential over MFL success than teachers
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MFL Foreign languages
  • May 3, 2022
Modern foreign languages curriculum design courses: apply now
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum design
  • Apr 5, 2022
Ofsted MFL policy and evidence-informed curriculum
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MFL Foreign languages
  • Mar 13, 2022
In the balance: the artful mix that goes into becoming a Modern Foreign Language teacher
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MFL Foreign languages Teacher training
  • Feb 23, 2022
'Pure fantasy': GCSE language reforms under fire
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 18, 2022
Language GCSEs are being dumbed down under government reforms
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 15, 2022
Head teachers say non to language GCSE drive
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 15, 2022
GCSE languages overhauled to drill common words – but heads say it could make subjects narrow and ‘grinding’
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
Students in England will learn up to 1,700 frequently used words in French, German and Spanish GCSEs under new reforms
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
GCSE French, German and Spanish subject content
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
Reforms to encourage more students to take up language GCSEs
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
New assessments for GCSE French, German and Spanish
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Assessments MFL Foreign languages
  • Jan 14, 2022
‘Dumbing down’ row as GCSE language students to learn fewer words than five-year-olds
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
Plan for pupils to learn 1,700 words for language GCSEs gets go-ahead
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
ASCL comment on Ofqual decision on reform of Modern Foreign Languages GCSEs
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
New MFL GCSEs to avoid 'posh' and 'unfair' references
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
‘Risky’ MFL GCSE reforms get go ahead – but delayed for a year
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms
  • Jan 14, 2022
Language associations, unions and exam boards unite in call for rethink of reform of GCSE Modern Foreign Languages
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MFL Foreign languages GCSEs Curriculum reforms
  • Nov 25, 2021
Teachers reject plans to have pupils learn 1,700 words for language GCSEs
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MFL Foreign languages Curriculum reforms GCSEs
  • Nov 25, 2021
Rethink ‘flawed’ MFL GCSE reforms, heads and exam boards urge
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MFL Foreign languages GCSEs Curriculum reforms
  • Nov 25, 2021
GCSEs: Heads and exam boards reject 'risky' MFL reforms
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MFL Foreign languages GCSEs Curriculum reforms
  • Nov 25, 2021
Modern Foreign Languages: Transition from primary to secondary
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MFL Foreign languages Transition
  • Nov 15, 2021
IOE Director on valuing a greater diversity of modern foreign language options
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MFL Foreign languages Diversity
  • Oct 21, 2021
Content and language integrated learning and extensive processing instruction: A useful partnership for language teaching?
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MFL Foreign languages
  • Sep 17, 2021
Progress in MFL: Preparing students the smart way
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MFL Foreign languages
  • Sep 15, 2021
British Council statement on modern foreign languages GCSE results
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MFL Foreign languages GCSEs
  • Aug 12, 2021
British Council statement on modern foreign languages A-level results
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MFL Foreign languages Results day
  • Aug 10, 2021
Too many pupils get just two years of MFL at key stage 3, Ofsted warns
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MFL Languages Subject choice Curriculum
  • Jun 8, 2021
Why the proposed changes to MFL get it all wrong
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MFL Languages Curriculum reforms
  • May 19, 2021
Ofsted plan to hit 90% MFL target is 'unrealistic'
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MFL Languages EBacc
  • May 6, 2021
GCSE languages plan could lower standards, expert warns
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GCSEs MFL Languages Education standards
  • Apr 27, 2021
Metacognition in modern foreign language teaching - a perspective from secondary school
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MFL Metacognition Languages
  • Mar 31, 2021
GCSE modern foreign languages (MFL) subject content review
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GCSEs MFL Languages
  • Mar 10, 2021
Proposals for future assessment arrangements for GCSE French, German and Spanish
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GCSEs MFL Languages Assessments
  • Mar 10, 2021
No MFL bursary boost despite teacher shortage
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Teacher bursaries MFL Languages Teacher shortages
  • Mar 10, 2021
GCSEs: Plans for new ‘streamlined’ MFL courses
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GCSEs MFL Languages Curriculum reforms
  • Mar 10, 2021
Pupils ‘expected to know’ up to 1,700 words under reforms to MFL GCSEs
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MFL Languages GCSEs Vocabulary Curriculum reforms
  • Mar 10, 2021
Speaking removed from modern languages qualifications
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Coronavirus SQA Scotland MFL Languages Speech
  • Jan 29, 2021
GCSE MFL spoken language assessment criteria and approach
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GCSEs MFL Languages Assessments
  • Nov 5, 2020
GCSEs 2021: MFL 'one-off' speaking tests allowed
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MFL Languages GCSEs Assessments
  • Nov 5, 2020
GCSEs 2021: Teachers can use one-off tests for MFL speaking
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MFL Assessments Languages GCSEs
  • Nov 5, 2020
MFL 2021 - technical consultation on implementing confirmed changes
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GCSEs MFL Foreign languages
  • Oct 12, 2020
Don't take away the one thing that will guarantee a thriving global Britain
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Languages MFL Curriculum
  • Sep 16, 2020
Language learning vital to pandemic recovery, the British Academy and partners urge
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Languages MFL
  • Jul 8, 2020
Poor foreign language skills costing the economy billions
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Languages MFL
  • Jul 8, 2020
Trust issued warning after key stage 3 pupils not taught MFL
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Warning notices Academy trusts School performance MFL Curriculum
  • Mar 6, 2020
Learning foreign languages in primary schools
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MFL Foreign languages Primary Curriculum Subject choice
  • Mar 3, 2020
DfE funds undergrad MFL GCSE volunteer force
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MFL Languages
  • Feb 28, 2020
Secondaries failing to deliver ‘right’ to languages
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Scotland Secondary Curriculum Subject choice Languages MFL
  • Feb 20, 2020
Girls just want to learn languages?
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Languages MFL Gender gap Attainment gap
  • Feb 18, 2020
GCSE MFL entry 'lower for free school meals pupils'
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GCSEs MFL Languages Disadvantaged pupils
  • Jan 30, 2020
How do we encourage boys to learn languages?
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Gender gap Languages MFL Pupil performance
  • Jan 28, 2020
It's no shock that boys are avoiding languages
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Gender gap Languages MFL Pupil performance
  • Jan 27, 2020
New report reveals stark gender gap in foreign languages
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Languages MFL Gender gap Pupil performance
  • Jan 27, 2020
Boys studying modern foreign languages at GCSE in schools in England
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Languages MFL Gender gap GCSEs Subject choice Pupil performance
  • Jan 27, 2020
‘Huge gender gap’ in languages GCSE results
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Gender gap GCSEs Languages Pupil performance MFL
  • Jan 27, 2020
Gender gap in foreign languages - EPI report
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Gender gap Languages MFL Subject choice Pupil performance
  • Jan 27, 2020
Girls are ‘more than twice as likely’ as boys to achieve a pass in a language GCSE
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Gender gap Languages MFL Pupil performance GCSEs
  • Jan 27, 2020
Parlez-vous français? Maybe not if you're a boy
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Languages MFL Gender gap Pupil performance GCSEs
  • Jan 27, 2020
Girls twice as likely as boys to pass GCSE languages, EPI finds
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GCSEs Languages MFL Gender gap Pupil performance
  • Jan 27, 2020
Girls are twice as likely as boys to get a good grade in foreign languages
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Gender gap GCSEs MFL Languages Pupil performance
  • Jan 27, 2020
Only 38% of boys learn foreign language at GCSE
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Gender gap Pupil performance Languages MFL GCSEs
  • Jan 27, 2020
How to remedy Britain’s language-deficit curse
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Languages Curriculum MFL
  • Jan 14, 2020
In the news: 10 January 2020
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USS Pensions Strikes Mental health Erasmus+ MFL Languages Emma Hardy
  • Jan 10, 2020
Make languages compulsory to 16 to tackle crisis
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Languages Curriculum MFL KS4
  • Jan 9, 2020
Is there a crisis in modern foreign languages?
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MFL Languages
  • Dec 4, 2019
Brexit or not, MFL cannot be optional for Britain
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Brexit MFL Languages
  • Nov 21, 2019
Do proposed adjustments to grading in GCSE languages go far enough?
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Grading GCSEs Languages MFL
  • Nov 6, 2019
Ofqual’s MFL GCSE grade change ‘doesn't go far enough’
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Ofqual MFL GCSEs Grading
  • Nov 6, 2019
French and German GCSE grading to be less severe from 2020
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GCSEs Grading MFL Languages
  • Nov 6, 2019
Bonus marks for French and German GCSE pupils
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MFL Languages GCSEs
  • Nov 6, 2019
It's official: some GCSEs have been easier than others
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GCSEs MFL Languages
  • Nov 5, 2019
French and German GCSEs to be marked less severely amid concerns pupils are being put off languages, regulator says
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GCSEs MFL Languages Marking
  • Nov 5, 2019
Inter-subject comparability in GCSE modern foreign languages
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GCSEs MFL Languages Grading
  • Nov 5, 2019
GCSE modern foreign languages subject content review panel
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GCSEs MFL Languages
  • Nov 5, 2019
French and German GCSEs to be marked less harshly, Ofqual rules
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MFL Languages GCSEs Marking
  • Nov 5, 2019
DfE review to make MFL subjects ‘more accessible’
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MFL Languages GCSEs
  • Nov 5, 2019
GCSEs' varying degrees of difficulty – 6 key questions
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Grading GCSEs MFL Languages
  • Nov 5, 2019
GCSE MFL content could be made more 'accessible' by DfE
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GCSEs MFL Languages Grading
  • Nov 5, 2019
Ofqual to make it easier to get top grades in GCSE French and German
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MFL Languages GCSEs Exam results
  • Nov 5, 2019
MAT looked at cutting MFL and boosting BTECs for P8
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MATs MFL BTECs Progress 8 Off-rolling Pupil performance
  • Oct 10, 2019
DfE uses Snapchat to continue languages revival at GCSE
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GCSEs MFL Languages Social media
  • Sep 11, 2019
Will anything ever be done about grading in modern foreign languages GCSEs?
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GCSEs MFL Languages Grading
  • Sep 10, 2019
German GCSE skiing question highlights 'class biases'
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GCSEs MFL Languages Elitism
  • Sep 6, 2019
Three per cent rise in modern foreign language GCSEs is ‘slight recovery after huge drop’
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GCSEs Exam results Languages MFL
  • Aug 22, 2019
Brexit widens the UK’s language divide
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Languages Subject choice Narrow curriculum Brexit MFL GCSEs
  • Jul 9, 2019
Want a truly mind-expanding experience? Learn another language | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Languages MFL Brexit Subject choice
  • Jul 4, 2019
Why Brexit mustn't mean turning our back on languages
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Languages MFL Brexit
  • Jul 4, 2019
ASCL comment on language trends survey
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Languages MFL Subject choice
  • Jul 3, 2019
6 interesting findings from the Language Trends 2019 report
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Languages MFL
  • Jul 3, 2019
Tougher GCSEs 'put students off learning languages'
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Languages GCSEs MFL A-levels Exams
  • Jul 3, 2019
Tough new exams discouraging pupils in England from learning languages, say teachers
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English language MFL GCSEs A-levels Subject choice
  • Jul 3, 2019
Brexit 'hitting foreign languages in schools'
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MFL Languages Brexit
  • Jul 3, 2019
Brexit 'putting pupils off modern foreign languages'
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Brexit Languages MFL
  • Jul 3, 2019
Bilingual pupils distort results in language exams
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Bilingual Languages MFL Exam results
  • Jul 3, 2019
What really is the point of vocabulary tests in MFL?
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MFL Vocabulary
  • Jun 25, 2019
Learning maths in foreign language 'boosts MFL grades'
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MFL Maths Foreign languages GCSEs Immersive teaching
  • Jun 20, 2019
STEM and MFL: teacher supply and recruitment programmes evaluation
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STEM MFL Teacher supply Teacher recruitment
  • Jun 13, 2019
Increase in EBacc entries as modern foreign languages rise
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EBacc MFL Languages
  • May 24, 2019
Have modern foreign languages turned the corner?
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MFL Languages GCSEs
  • May 24, 2019
Response to Guardian story about language learning in schools
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Language GCSEs A-levels Subject choice MFL Grading
  • May 11, 2019
Teachers ‘lack understanding’ of the benefits of learning languages
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Languages Teachers MFL
  • May 8, 2019
Scotland: Schools lack understanding on benefits of language learning, MSPs told
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Scotland MFL Languages
  • May 8, 2019
Lord Agnew will take MFL teacher visa suggestion to Home Office
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Teachers MFL Languages
  • Apr 10, 2019
GCSEs: How to tackle MFL speaking and listening exams
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GCSEs MFL Languages
  • Mar 20, 2019
Why learning another language is still a sign of privilege
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Languages Privilege Social mobility Subject choice MFL
  • Mar 13, 2019
'Brexit means we can't ignore the decline of MFL'
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MFL Brexit
  • Mar 9, 2019
Scottish schools teach French to pupils who struggle to read English
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Languages MFL Scotland
  • Mar 7, 2019
English is not enough – British children face major disadvantage when it comes to language skills
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English Language MFL
  • Feb 25, 2019
We don’t need no (foreign language) education!
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MFL Languages
  • Feb 4, 2019
3:00 p.m. - House of Lords debate re recruitment of Modern Foreign Language Teachers
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MFL Languages Teacher recruitment
  • Jan 23, 2019
EBacc target ‘out of our hands’, say heads
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EBacc Ofsted framework Inspections MFL
  • Jan 22, 2019
Recruit teachers from Spain to teach modern foreign languages
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Spain Teacher recruitment MFL Foreign languages
  • Jan 15, 2019
Who knew "hubs" could solve all of education's problems?
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Languages MFL Language hubs
  • Jan 14, 2019
New centre for excellence to boost modern foreign language skills
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Foreign languages MFL Language hubs
  • Jan 10, 2019
Revival hopes for language GCSEs with new centre of excellence
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Foreign languages Language hubs MFL
  • Jan 10, 2019
University of York to run £4.8m languages ‘centre of excellence’
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MFL Foreign languages
  • Jan 10, 2019
Recruit teachers from Spain to teach modern foreign languages
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Spain Teacher recruitment Languages SVTP MFL
  • Dec 20, 2018
EBacc ‘not had much effect’ on MFL uptake, admits DfE official
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EBacc MFL Languages Subject choice Curriculum
  • Nov 29, 2018
Ofqual won’t relax grade boundaries for science and MFL A-levels
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Ofqual Grade boundaries Science MFL Languages A-levels
  • Nov 21, 2018
40% more MFL teacher trainees needed for 2020
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MFL Languages
  • Nov 5, 2018
A third of state schools no longer teach languages in year 9
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Languages MFL
  • Jun 27, 2018
Brexit will be ‘top challenge’ for schools in coming years
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Schools Week Brexit Recruitment Funding Budgets Finances Languages Teacher shortage ESF MFL International staff
  • May 8, 2017
A-level language grades will increase to correct historic undergrading
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Schools Week A-levels Languages Grading MFL Ofqual GCSEs
  • Apr 29, 2017