Abuse of headteachers over phone bans in their schools is “completely unacceptable”, the education secretary has said, after ...
As Kigali hosted the Francophonie Summit, Rwanda placed its youth and women at the heart of the global Francophonie movement. With discussions focused on employment, education, and cultural exchange, ...
In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel ...
Despite my teachers’ insistence that I needed to take a language at GCSE, I decided against it. Having studied French since ...
Despite hating French at school, reading French books ended up being precisely what helped me feel at home when I moved to France.
The decline of language education in England is a familiar and depressing story. Take-up of French at GCSE is down from 25% in 2009–10 to 18% in 2024–25. German has halved in the same period from 10% ...
The review’s final report, now published, recommends a much sharper focus on the provision of languages in primary schools. It encourages a smoother transition from primary to secondary, which has ...
A British MMA fighter claims he was attacked while walking on the streets of Montreal, Canada, because he didn’t speak French. UFC featherweight Arnold Allen dropped the surprising news Tuesday as he ...
In 2016, Carly Bahler arrived in Madawaska to study the local French. She was a PhD student with midwestern vowels and an infectious sort of brio, and soon after checking in at her convent turned ...
The federal government promised $72-million in funding for French language education in Manitoba over the next four years in an agreement officially signed by the province and Ottawa on Tuesday.