Sentences with phrase «of modern languages»

Kate Heery, head of modern languages at Cheam high school in Surrey, said exchange trips were also in decline for her pupils.

Sara Davidson, head of modern languages at the private Oundle School and chairwoman of the Independent Schools Modern Languages Association, said she did not know of a language department that did not employ native speakers.

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

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.

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

Most of the modern languages in Eurasia can be traced back to a single mother tongue that existed around the time of the last ice age

The surprising result supports a theory that nomads from the Urals were one of two major farmer groups that spread into Europe, bringing the Indo - European languages that eventually diverged into the world's largest family of modern languages.

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

A study last year found the studying of modern languages had declined rapidly in Wales since 2002, with the then education minister saying he wanted to see children starting to learn at primary school.

Liberal Democrat Education Spokesperson David Laws said it was vital a wide range of modern languages were available in schools, and that Liberal Democrats support those parents who are making their case to the exam boards.

Perhaps, because so much of modern language has become overworked to the point of banality in the context of contemporary art («post-internet «and «speculative realism «as examples), more and more modern exhibitions are turning to lyrical, vaudeville - like titles like Never cargo terminal... to differentiate themselves.

Plywood and vinyl are employed to create works named with titles that refer to cliches of modern language and draw attention to the layered textures within Deacon's art.

However, Krauss did not support Nesbit's second publication, Their Common Sense, which laid out Nesbit's more Marxist research on mechanical drawing and the «new orders of modern language».

In October, the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired the first alphabet of emojis dating to 1999, recognizing the importance of this modern language.

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.

The Smith and the Devil progressed from proto - languages to all of the modern languages shown here as leaves on the tale's evolutionary tree.

She added: «We are witnessing serious concerns about whether we are training sufficient teachers of modern languages, of religious and moral education and of PE to name just a few.