I was flicking through the news the other day and a headline from the BBC caught my eye; “Foreign language skills cost Scottish businesses“. In fact, it should really have read ‘LACK of foreign language skills’, as the article was
Google Translate comes off better than the BBC? What is the world coming to…
While flicking through the news over my coffee this morning, I came across this article from the BBC : ‘Nicolas Sarkozy says France has too many foreigners’. But what stood out for me was not Sarkozy’s policy, but the quote
“Les relations franco-britanniques sont excellentes” – really, Monsieur Sarkozy?
I tweeted about this yesterday but couldn’t find a video clip – now I have thanks to Lucienne Magalie Pons’ blog. I was watching France24’s lunchtime bulletin and happened to catch the start of the summit headed up by Cameron
Follow-up: ‘The World is talking but we’re not taking part’
As a follow-up to my previous posts about the Daily Mail article ‘Why do the English need to speak a foreign language’ and The i article on the lack of foreign students applying to UK universities, here’s another one from
Foreign Students are shunning UK Universities
An article in The i on Friday revealed statistics which show students from other EU countries are starting to view the UK as a ‘no-go zone’ for higher education. As the article points out, the UK economy stands to