Sentences with phrase «modern languages»

In medium - priority subjects, such as modern languages, students with a first - class degree would receive # 13,000.

It's not very handy for people who use modern languages.

Latin and Greek played a much larger role in these universities than did modern languages.

However other modern languages has risen by 9 per cent — one of the highest increases by subject - level.

Sources close to the process say that's because there aren't currently enough teachers in some subjects — particularly modern languages.

Nevertheless, people accept that languages evolve and that modern languages derive from earlier ones that were, in many cases, considerably different.

Extra learning support is made available for those students requiring this input to ensure their progress at the expense of a second modern language.

Such is this sample works cited modern language association cover sheet template that can be downloaded online without much hassle.

Vatican II encouraged lay involvement in worship and Bible studies, the use of modern languages instead of Latin and replacing confessionals with collective prayers.

For example, the EPI estimates that the number of modern languages teachers will need to increase by 78 per cent by 2019 - 20.

Brian Lightman, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: «The decrease in modern languages at GCSE is disappointing but until employers give a clear message that they value languages as a business skill, it will be difficult to convince students otherwise».

Jelbert left the farm to study modern languages at Exeter University.

Registration for modern language degree courses, A-levels and GCSEs has steadily decreased.

«I think water crossing goes with modern language and with modern art,» says Geoff Irwin, an expert on ancient seafaring at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Collections of area rugs recreating ancient art through modern language and colour, suitable for modern interior.

Yet there are many modern language translations that are faithful inspired pieces of work — though I do shy away from the «KJV is the Only Version!»

The top 20 local authorities for pupils taking modern languages are almost all in inner or outer London.

Genome - cracking tools are helping us pull the past from modern languages, revealing ancient origins, migrations and relationships.

«The government must conduct a serious review of its stance on modern languages in the key stage four curriculum and examine how it should be promoting these subjects rather than presiding their decline,» he said.

Under Labour, schools were told they no longer had to teach modern languages to children after the age of 14.

While she said the decline of modern languages was «disappointing,» she criticised the direction the government was taking.

The core subjects, most modern languages, Latin and Classical Greek are offered in a choice of levels to cater for the full range of abilities.

«In doing so it will need to take early action to safeguard the future of university modern languages departments.»

As modern language graduates pursue a range of careers, further study or training in subjects such as marketing, finance, business, IT and journalism are popular, and for some careers, such as law and teaching, postgraduate qualifications are essential.

Such is the difficulty involved, however, in making modern language serve this purpose that in this regard the coöperation of the reader is imperative.

Many bro - mances (ugh, a horrible perversion modern language has become...) and guy - friendships are based on, in essence, finding cool ways to beat on each other.

One of the oddest features of contemporary English» indeed of modern languages across the board» is the habit speakers so often indulge of using terms drawn from one of the arts to praise the other arts, or life itself.

We need to find ways to encourage more students to take - up modern languages by showing just how useful it can be to their careers.»

The news comes as a new GCSE and A-level modern language syllabus is set be taught in England from September 2016, with new exams due to be delivered in the summer of 2018.

The total passes for Higher English increased by 17.7 per cent when compared to last year when every student completed the old version, and modern languages saw an increased A-C pass rate of 15.2 per cent.

A Year 4 teacher helps her pupils develop their French modern language skills through an engaging lesson where the Key Stage 2 pupils make chocolat...

After dispensing with Greek and Latin early last century, progressives campaigned relentlessly to discredit all the basic components of liberal education, condemning modern languages, history, geography, literature, higher mathematics, and laboratory sciences as elitist, inappropriate, and even damaging for all but a small number of college - bound students.

Many of the requests for help we receive come from group travel leaders preparing to take visits that did not include outdoor and adventurous activities, but were typically curriculum - based tours, such as history and modern language residentials or concert tours.

Once long ago I noticed the great disparity between what theology and religion students were expected to know to write their theses — Latin, Greek, Hebrew, a few modern languages — and where they ended up: teaching religion, not a very high - prestige subject, for modest rewards, in minor liberal arts colleges.

Pupils at Abertillery Comprehensive have the option of learning Spanish as the only modern language on offer, with French and German no longer available.

Whether new to The Iliad or familiar with its riches, listeners are in for an unexpected treat with this splendid abridged audio of Lombardo's 1998 translation, which employs modern language and colloquial jargon without sacrificing the majesty of the classic poem or the narrative's well - loved images and metaphors.

They use simple modern language rather than using bombastic and archaic words or terminology.

Quentin Atkinson states: «An origin of modern languages predating the African exodus 50,000 to 70,000 years ago puts complex language alongside the earliest archaeological evidence of symbolic culture in Africa 80,000 to 160,000 years ago.

Truly modern language, akin to languages spoken today, may thus have been the key cultural innovation that allowed the emergence of these and other hallmarks of behavioral modernity and ultimately led to our colonization of the globe.»

I spent my first year at university reading modern languages and quickly realised that my ambitions of becoming an interpreter at the United Nations would be thwarted by the many truly bilingual, and sometimes trilingual, aspirants surrounding me.