Make the Most of a Work Experience Placement. Work experience is a great way to gain that essential experience in the workplace that most prospective employers will demand. Consider a work experience as an opportunity to enhance your CV to help you get that...
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Writing that Killer CV – Get the Job of Your Dreams
What is the job of your dreams? Truth be known, you may not know what your ideal job is. A lot of young people don't. In fact, a job-for-life, which was much more common a few short decades ago, is a lot less common nowadays and you may have several 'dream jobs' in...
Navigating Global Pandemic, Post-Brexit Britain as a Linguist
Where did it all begin? I cannot explain when or how my love for languages began. Every now and then, I have the odd glimpse back to my 9-year-old self who tried to create Emily-a-topian, a self-created language with very little logic or structure. You would...
Excelling with Edtech in Languages
Where did Edtech start? I remember my own school days sat in French lessons trying to work out what the teacher was saying but also wondering why there were holes in the table. I found out about language labs and that ours had become outdated and had been removed....
The Joys of Leading an MFL Department
Where did it all begin? I can pinpoint exactly the time when I fell in love with Germany. It was July 1979, I was in the fourth year (Year 10 in new money), and it was my first morning with my host family in Darmstadt, near Frankfurt. My German exchange partner,...
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