Beware the security creep into adult education.
- Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics, The Open University
As part of an anti-extremism strategy, the home secretary says funds for translation services will be cut, but more put into English lessons.
The education of children who speak more than one language is being used as part of a wider debate about immigration just months before the UK’s 2015 general election. But there is surprisingly little…
There are now more than 1.1 million children in our schools whose first language “is known or believed to be other than English” according to the latest government figures. This confirms a continuous upwards…
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