Fiona Hyslop, the education minister, also revealed that baccalaureates in social subjects and art might be created in future.

LANGUAGESPUPILS choose two languages from: French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Classical Greek, Latin, Learners’ Gaelic, Urdu, Mandarin and Cantonese.

Plus: English, English for speakers of other languages or Gaelic and an interdisciplinary project.

Any two of the languages chosen should be at Advanced Higher, with one at Higher. The project will be at Advanced Higher level and graded A, B or C.

For example, a candidate might choose Advanced Higher English and French, Higher Spanish and the project.
Read the Scotsman article.

The Scottish Education Awards are a celebration of the good practice and innovative developments taking place in Scottish education.  The awards highlight best practice in Scottish classrooms, celebrate schools and acknowledge the dedicated individuals who devote their lives to helping young people fulfil their potential.

Nominations for the Scottish Education Awards can be made until Friday 27 February 2009 and awards will be given across 17 categories, details of which can be found on the website.

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottisheducationawards/?

Salvadorean Nancy Arévalo remembers what it was like to be in a new country where she didn’t speak either English or the Mexican Spanish spoken by everyone else in the playground.

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes

0r watch and download on MFLE website 

or even watch and subscribe through YouTube if you like.

For more information please download the Scottish-German Conference invite  or email Sarah Jenkins  (Telephone: 020 7824 1572).

Good for language days, as an eccentric end of term treat, or even a flashily French, jazzily German or sparklingly Spanish assembly.

Visit the Planet Language website

The topics include Immigration, Aspirations, Family, Identity and Freetime.

We hope to release an episode a week over the next few months and you can stay up to date with these Spanish podcasts by subscribing to the RSS feed.  

The first two episodes are available to watch now. You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes

0r watch and download on MFLE website 

or even watch and subscribe through YouTube if you like.

Organised jointly by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) and the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (University of Edinburgh), this event will focus on providing support for languages through partnerships between universities, colleges and schools.

A full programme and registration details are available from http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/3073

NB. There is no charge to attend for employees and postgraduate students of publicly funded UK educational institutions.

The new resource Citizens of the World – Life in the DRC (Citoyens Du Monde – La Vie en RDC) is has been specially designed to support Curriculum for Excellence. It comprises a web-based video wall of young Congolese talking about their lives, an interactive blog enabling young Scottish students to ask questions and hold discussions with a young person in the Congo, and a teachers’ pack including background, lesson ideas, factsheets and a DVD.

£9.95 is being charged by SCIAF to help recover the costs of production.

The new resource can be obtained by schools by emailing youth@sciaf.org.uk or by calling SCIAF direct on telephone: 0141 354 5555.