Education providers

Support for you and your language programmes

 

 

Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grants

Schools in the UK that wish to develop links with Japan and Japanese schools are able to apply for funding through the Britain Sasakawa Foundation. The Foundation makes small grants of up to £1,500 to support activities that support the study of the Japanese language and culture, School, Education and Youth exchanges. In the past the Foundation has made grants towards visits the between the UK and Japan between by teachers and young people and the teaching and development of Japanese language and cultural studies in schools. Schools that have successfully applied to the Foundation include George Mitchell School , who received a grant of £1,000 to support an international week at the school with focus on Japan and County Upper School, Bury St Edmunds, which received a grant of £5,000 to help fund a study tour to Japan by eight Year 11 students and two teachers.

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Languages and Enterprise Activity

For ideas on how to develop enterprising activities with your students on Languages in Business click here.

 

Tutor Hunt

Tutor Hunt is a free service useful for both tutors and students wishing to locate each other.

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North West University Language Alliance (NWULA)

With the support of the RLN NW, the Universities of Bolton, Central Lancashire, Chester, Edge Hill, Lancaster, Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores, Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan, and Salford have come together and created the NWULA. Its main purpose is to promote language learning to young people in the region.

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Case studies

As well as business case studies, over the years RLN NW has worked with a number of schools to produce case studies which show how languages can be made relevant to the students. See a few examples below.

Riply St Thomas case study (PDF)
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Smithills School case study (PDF)
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VALEUR Project update

The VALEUR (Valuing All Language in Europe) project has now produced a draft 'map' of all the languages spoken in the 22 countries represented and the educational provision available for them.

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