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Promoting languages through HE outreach with schools

Promoting languages through HE outreach with schools. A strategic overview Michael Kelly Director Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. The international context. Knowledge economy Mobility and migration Diversity and multilingualism. The European challenge.

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Promoting languages through HE outreach with schools

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  1. Promoting languages through HE outreach with schools A strategic overview Michael Kelly Director Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies

  2. The international context • Knowledge economy • Mobility and migration • Diversity and multilingualism

  3. The European challenge • Lisbon objectives • education and training to equal US by 2010 • Barcelona objective • at least two foreign languages learned by all • Bologna Process • convergent HE with strong interfaces

  4. Language strategies in the UK • the Nuffield Report (Languages: the next generation) • England • Wales • Scotland • Northern Ireland

  5. The strategic imperatives for Higher Education Upstream • outreach to schools • informing policy Downstream • supplying teachers, assistants • teacher education (initial and inservice) • life-long language learning

  6. The way forward • collaborative projects and events • networks • building partnerships

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