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Business Language Champions and Ellis Guildford School
AST recently got involved with the East Midlands Regional Language Network’s Business Language Champions scheme, an initiative which recruits businesses into local schools to encourage students to continue with their language learning by demonstrating the importance of language skills beyond the classroom environment.
Since 2004 it has no longer been compulsory for young people to study a modern language post key stage 3. This means that more and more young people are dropping languages aged 13/14, and leaving school with no language qualifications. This is detrimental to local businesses to whom employing people with language abilities would be a real benefit.
The Regional Language Network seeks to redress this balance by raising awareness of the relevance of modern language skills in the workplace. It does this through coordinating events between schools and local businesses.
AST went to Ellis Guilford School at the start of March this year to deliver a presentation and language workshop designed to raise awareness of the many uses languages can have in the workplace. Ellis Guilford is an inner city school with a particularly low uptake of languages to GCSE level. The unusual event was covered in the Nottingham Evening Post and the day was such a success that AST has plans to extend its involvement in the scheme, with a view to visiting other schools in the Nottingham area.
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