German in the UK
Languages in the press
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| The Guardian | Letters in response to Michael Gove's latest announcement about languages in schools - 03.10.11 |
| The Guardian | Pupils switching to more traditional GCSE subjects, survey finds - 31.08.11 |
| Evening Standard | Huge fall in numbers of schools where pupils must study a language - 21.02.11 |
| The Russell Group | The Russell Group of universities warns students against 'soft subjects' - 09.02.11 |
| British Academy | Lost in Translation - British Academy warns of growing mismatch between supply and demand in language skills - 09.02.11 |
| Die Welt | James McCabe about Schadenfreude, Zeitgeist and new German loanwords he would like to introduce - 11.01.11 |
| CILT | New Ofsted report confirms good progress in primary languages - 11.01.11 |
| sh:z Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag | Deutsch trifft Englisch - December 2010 (PDF) |
| The Guardian | School league tables to include languages and humanities - 30.12.10 |
| Herald Scotland | Comment: ‘Sought-after language is not very difficult to learn’ - 25.11.10 |
| Herald Scotland | Alarm at number of schools dropping German - 25.11.10 |
| Daily Telegraph | Pupils to learn a language in GCSE shake-up - 24.11.10 |
| Daily Mail | German is the second most common language in Europe, according to Eurostat - 04.10.10 |
| Die Welt | Ausländische Spitzen-Studenten lieben Deutschland - 13.09.10 |
| The Telegraph | 'English Baccalaureate' to combat drop in academic GCSEs |
| DfE | DfE statement on language teaching policy - 26.08.10 |
| The Guardian | GCSE results: Ministers to review language teaching - 24.08.10 |
| The Guardian | Who still wants to learn languages? - 24.08.10 |
| The Guardian | Trapped in the Anglosphere, we've lost sight of next door - 20.08.10 |
| The Observer | To speak another language isn't just cultured, it's a blow against stupidity - 15.08.10 |
| The Observer | Language teaching: Entre nous, the idea we need only English is totally passé - 15.08.10 |
| Daily Telegraph | More British students 'to study abroad', says Willetts - 01. 08.10 |
| Daily Telegraph | Denglish über alles - 28.07.10 |
| DW-World | Uber-cool English-speakers love using German words - 27.07.10 |
| Bristol Evening Post | Looking after the kids by Rod MacKinnon - 27.07.10 |
| Sunday Times (please note, you have to register to use this site) | Smiley’s secret: He wants us to love Germany - extracts from John le Carré's speech at the Think German conference - 11.07.10 |
| BBC | Stowmarket High record a World Cup song at Arsenal FC - 02.07.10 |
| FAZ | Engländer, keine Angst vor den Deutschen! John le Carré's speech at the Think German conference - 25.06.2010 |
| London Evening Standard | Ich bin ein Londoner: why we're bonding with Germany - 24.05.10 |
| The Independent | More languages on the menu in schools - 20.05.10 |
| The Times | Languages crisis is threatening a generation of state school pupils - 15.05.10 |
| Spiegel | Ten good reasons to learn German (in German) - 14.04.10 |
| Evening Standard | Talking your way to the top - 18.03.10 |
| CILT | Employers rank languages most desirable skill after IT - 26.02.10 |
| Der Spiegel | Gaststudenten in Deutschland - 23.02.10 |
| The Guardian | It is awful that we've given up on languages - 07.02.10 |
| CILT | Language Trends secondary |
| Der Spiegel | Hasta la vista, Deutschunterricht - 23.01.10 |
| The Times | Foreign languages becoming 'privilege of elite' - 21.01.10 |
| BBC | Fewer schools hit language target - 20.01.10 |
| The Guardian | Languages are becoming 'twilight subjects' at state schools - 20.01.10 |
| The Guardian | Auf Wiedersehen German, Hola Spanish - 20.01.10 |
| The Independent | Schools abandon foreign language targets - 20.01.10 |
| The Independent | Comment: Languages need to be a priority for the pupils' and the nation's sake - 20.01.10 |
| The Independent | Why make learning a foreign language your New Year’s resolution? - 30.11.09 |
| BBC | Learning languages 'boosts brain' - 13.10.04 |