New career opportunities

Are you developing the foreign language skills of your staff? Does your company employ people who use foreign language skills on a regular basis?  If yes, do you know how many people have those skills? Which languages does your company use? Does your company give temporary placements to overseas students? Applications are being invited from…

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Jo Dawson – Case Study, France (1992)

Looking back, I can probably say that the 3 month scholarship from the John Speak Trust was one of the key defining points of my life – something for which I am extremely grateful. One of the many memories that I have of my John Speak Scholarship time in France was talking to the lorry…

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Feeling Humbled

I have been reflecting a lot on education of late, and how the receipt of it (or not as is often the case here) can have such a profound impact on person’s life. But that said I have realised intelligence is not just about ‘what we know’, i.e. naming the World’s ten fastest growing economies,…

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