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News section logo bullet Wales, Europe and the World
bullet Routes into Languages Wales: Project Co-ordinator (Grade 2)
bullet 2 vacancies on the CILT Cymru Advisory Board
bullet CILT is on the look-out for the UK's most innovative projects
   
bullet Routes into Languages Cymru
bullet The future for primary MFL in Wales...
   

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Wales, Europe and the World

Wales, Europe and the World highlights Cardiff and Wales's European and global links helping your pupils to find out more about working, studying and travelling in Europe and the wider world, whilst using their languages to enable them to get the most out of their experience.

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Routes into Languages Wales: Project Co-ordinator (Grade 2)

A full-time post (but applications for a part-time post will be considered) for 1 year initially.

Location: Cardiff Bay
Salary: £19,864 (pro rata, CILT Grade 2)
Start date: January 2010 / to be discussed

We are seeking an experienced administrator to provide comprehensive support to the ‘Routes into Languages Cymru’ Project Manager.

*The ability to work in Welsh is essential*

Click here for a job description (pdf file 392kb) and here for an application form (pdf file 124)

 
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2 vacancies on the CILT Cymru Advisory Board

Applications are invited to fill 2 vacancies that have arisen on the CILT Cymru Advisory Board.

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CILT is on the look-out for the UK’s most innovative projects

With applications now open for next year’s prestigious European Award for Languages, the search is on for the UK’s most innovative language learning projects. Schools, colleges, adult education and community projects are being encouraged to apply ahead of the deadline on 31st January 2010: www.cilt.org.uk/eal

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Routes into Languages Cymru

Wales has now officially joined the Routes into Languages project, the main aim of which is to attract more young people into studying MFL at university level, whether as a specialist degree subject or as a subsidiary subject. The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales is investing £750,000 over 3 years in this exciting project, bringing Wales into line with England, where 9 regional consortia are now entering their third year of project activity.

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The future for Primary MFL in Wales….

With the official end of the CILT Cymru/Welsh Assembly Government KS2 Pilot Project (2003-2009) in the summer term of 2009, our attention is now focused on the future of primary modern languages in Wales. The next steps are to share the good practice that exists in Wales and to extend the opportunities for MFL in primary schools.

To this end, the Welsh Assembly Government has set out a proposal in the revised ‘Making Languages Count’ document to create an ‘Innovator Schools’ Network’ from Jan 2010 where clusters would act as centres of excellence for their locality, with each LEA, in theory, having their own centre of excellence….

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Last updated: January 4 2010
E-mail: llinos.jones@ciltcymru.org.uk