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The University Council For Languages (UCFL) responds to welcome a new HEPI report and joins them in calling for urgent action on revitalising language learning:
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The University Council For Languages: the national voice of research & teaching in languages, cultures, societies, and related disciplines in HE.
- We would like to share our letter which launches the UCML campaign to support efforts to save the British Council and its many incredible schemes including @Languageasst Please feel free to disseminate widely to your networks.
- 🎉European day of languages - celebrating plurilingualism & the beauty of languages! Check out fab ideas & resources on edl.ecml.at or bit.ly/3Z0Gh6x to discover more about the diversity of languages & cultures in Europe, & where languages will take you! 🎉
- Let's continue talking about the positives of language professions, professions with languages & the sheer joy of learning languages.
GIF - Many congratulations from @UCFLangs to @charlesforsdick on his appointment as @BritishAcademy_ Lead Fellow for Languages - we v. much look forward to working with him on 'The Revival of Language Learning' discussed in his feature article published today 👇
- The Modern Languages sector joins forces to address the covid-19-related challenges of year abroad for modern languages students! The Virtual Year Abroad project has officially launched! …iversity-council-modern-languages.org/year-abroad/ @HelenAbbott1 @gorrara67
- Tomorrow we will ask the General Council at our AGM to approve our name change to UCFL (University Council For Languages). After a lengthy consultation process, the overwhelming advice has been that Modern Languages must let go of the ‘Modern’.
- Dear Rt Hon. Damian Hinds, I am writing to you in my capacity as the Chair of the Universities Council of Modern Languages (UCML), with the support of colleagues from our Steering Group.
- Universities must link their global strategies to languages, argues Vicky Lewis.'Language learning is at the heart of internationalisation'. Thoughts on a jarring blind spot in university internationalisation strategies. timeshighereducation.com/blog/language-… via @timeshighered @ProfMikeKelly @kbjhaines @UniKentDeanInt @tomaszjohn84 @clerotto @A_M_Graham @Dizzybugspin
- Devastated to hear from colleagues at @UniKent that 58 jobs are at risk across the Arts & Humanities and elsewhere, including Music & Audio Tech; Art History; English Lang & Linguistics; Comp Lit; Philosophy; Religion & Ethics; Modern Languages. @ArtsandHums @UCFLangs @ILCS_SAS
- "Modern Languages are more important since Brexit than ever". Baroness Garden, Vice Chair of @APPGML, speaks out for student mobility & asks to guarantee the future of languages learning, raising the issue of Turing funding & the problems it creates for students, HE & WP.Watch Baroness Garden, Vice Chair of the APPG ML, speak in the Lords yesterday about issues with the Turing programme in Higher Education, particularly for modern languages, with reference to the @BritishAcademy_ and @UCML : parliamentlive.tv/event/index/8b… #LanguagePolicyUK
- Announcing our new Institution-Wide Language Teaching rep! Welcome, Marina Rabadán Gómez of the University of Liverpool: …iversity-council-modern-languages.org/2020/07/08/ucm…
