Join experts in a discussion on the language-education landscape in the North-West and explore new ways of working together, to make the North-West a truly multilingual region. 

Language Networks Now: Living the Language
Centre for Teaching Excellence of Language Learning
ULMS - Management School
Tuesday, June 9  2026
1 PM - 5 PM
 
What challenges and opportunities do we face? 
How can schools and Higher Education institutions collaborate to foster new and already existing language skills, and what can we do to accredit those skills appropriately for the benefit of the students?
 

Speakers include:

  • Jo Code (Headteacher, St Hilda’s CE High School)
  • Stephen Cummings (Head of MFL, St Hilda’s CE High School)
  • Claudia d’Agostino (Languages for All)
  • Ian Ellison (The Languages Gateway and University of Oxford)
  • Gill Rowlands (SIL)
  • Anna Saunders (University of Liverpool)
  • Supplementary School teachers

AGENDA AM 

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Find more information and register your attendance here.
 

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