Press Releases

New push for foreign languages

Tuesday 5th February 2008

Guide to promoting languages to teenagers now available

Wednesday 16th January 2008

Last chance for 2008 European Award for Languages nominations

Thursday 10th January 2008

‘Early bird’ deadline approaching for Primary Languages Show

Friday 4th January 2008

CILT responds to language funding announcement

Wednesday 19th December 2007

Yorkshire fabric company named top Business Language Champion

Thursday 6th December 2007

Celebrities support national languages and film competition for teenagers

Wednesday 28th November 2007

Schools reluctant to set targets to increase language take up

Monday 12th November 2007

CILT launches Digital video Pathfinder

Thursday 8th November 2007

CILT welcomes proposed new languages diploma

Tuesday 23rd October 2007

Survey of Mandarin teaching sets monitoring baseline

Monday 8th October 2007

‘Don’t give up languages’, employers urge teenagers

Monday 24th September 2007

15 UK projects rewarded for innovative language teaching

Monday 17th September 2007

CILT response to A level results for languages

Thursday 16th August 2007

Business links provide boost for languages

Thursday 21st June 2007

Job-seekers to showcase international expertise

Friday 4th May 2007

Search for top language projects enters final weeks

Wednesday 11th April 2007

Dearing backs school-university efforts to stem fall-off in languages

Thursday 15th March 2007

Research links languages to export success

Friday 2nd March 2007

National Centre for Languages launches news service

Wednesday 21st February 2007

Language projects compete to represent UK in Europe

Thursday 11th January 2007

Statement on Lord Dearing’s interim report on language teaching

Thursday 14th December 2006

New language surveys highlight challenge for Dearing

Wednesday 1st November 2006

‘Spanish can get you places’ Education Minister tells British teenagers

Wednesday 25th October 2006

Spanish comes to life in language careers website

Thursday 12th October 2006

CILT Director to advise on EU language policy

Friday 6th October 2006

CILT, the National Centre for Languages launches nationwide consultation

Wednesday 4th October 2006

European Day of Languages: 26 September 2006

Wednesday 20th September 2006

Sir Trevor McDonald to present language awards at Scottish Parliament

Tuesday 19th September 2006

Massive demand for language day resources

Thursday 14th September 2006

Further acclaim for creative language projects

Tuesday 12th September 2006

National centre invites nominations for language leaders

Friday 4th August 2006

New report highlights London’s need for language skills

Thursday 13th July 2006

Real communication a winner in language awards

Monday 10th July 2006

Girls score for UK in international football competition

Thursday 22nd June 2006

Schools see benefits of supporting pupils’ community languages

Monday 19th June 2006

Banking on languages for vocational courses

Thursday 8th June 2006

The contribution of languages to Adult and Continuing Learning

Thursday 25th May 2006

Language learners get free web support

Friday 19th May 2006

Major new survey counts cost of language skills shortage

Tuesday 16th May 2006

New characters to get UK talking on European Day of Languages

Thursday 11th May 2006

Think languages for careers - CILT launches new advice for sixth-formers

Monday 24th April 2006

Full steam ahead for languages in skills agenda

Friday 7th April 2006

All aboard for primary languages

Friday 10th March 2006

Teens exercise language skills in bid for World Cup glory

Wednesday 8th March 2006

Why teach languages? Stacking up the arguments

Thursday 23rd February 2006

Do language teachers spend enough time abroad?

Tuesday 17th January 2006

Search begins for UK’s top language projects

Thursday 12th January 2006

Christmas cheer for languages entitlement

Thursday 15th December 2005

Talking sense - language skills report published today

Monday 12th December 2005

Sir Trevor calls for more 'joined-up thinking' on languages

Friday 9th December 2005

British business lacks savoir-faire of international communication

Thursday 8th December 2005

Vocational language learning needs boost from employers

Tuesday 29th November 2005

New survey calls for stronger support for languages

Thursday 3rd November 2005

CILT, the National Centre for Languages, has welcomed today’s publication by the DfES of its Framework for Languages in Key Stage 2

Thursday 27th October 2005

Strong demand for translators in financial and legal services

Tuesday 25th October 2005

Sir Trevor leads Monday's European Day of Languages celebrations

Friday 23rd September 2005

61 languages taught in complementary schools

Thursday 22nd September 2005

Sponsors reward exceptional language projects

Thursday 15th September 2005

Campaign urges university applicants to think global

Thursday 8th September 2005

Statement from Isabella Moore, Director of CILT, the National Centre for Languages on 2005 GCSE results

Thursday 25th August 2005

South West celebrates business language success