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Romania recognises ESOL qualifications for high school graduation Thousands of students graduating from high school in Romania can now benefit from holding a Cambridge ESOL certificate. A decision by the country’s Ministry of Education has meant school leavers who have passed selected tests and exams will be exempt from the English Component of their final high school examinations. more

Conference Announcement-Foreign Language Instructional Technology: Theory and Practice Nicosia, Cyprus, December 3-5, 2010 The University of Cyprus, in conjunction with the Cyprus University of Technology, the Cyprus Open University and the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture, is pleased to announce its international conference Foreign Language Instructional Technology: Theory and Practice. The conference will focus on the role of instructional technology in fostering independent language learning.... more

MOLAN Information System This website presents the main outcomes of the MOLAN network project. MOLAN’s ultimate aim is to motivate young Europeans in formal education to learn and to continue learning languages. In March 2002, the EU heads of state and government agreed on the need to improve the mastery of basic skills, “in particular by teaching at least two foreign languages from a very early age”. The implementation of this policy is by no means easy. One of the reasons is that many young people do not believe in the value of multilingualism, dropping languages in secondary education or focusing exclusively on English.... more

Submit your entry for the eLearning Awards 2010 competition Since 2001, the eLearning Awards competition has been run by European Schoolnet and supported by key industry partners. Ten years after its launch, the eLearning Awards remain Europe’s leading competition to reward excellence for the best use of technology in education.To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the eLearning Awards, European Schoolnet invites all schools and teacher training institutions from Europe and beyond to take part and register at http://elearningawards.eun.org, and to present their best projects making use of ICT for teaching and learning. In 2009, 700 teachers from 36 countries submitted their work.... more

USA: Introducing America to Cambridge English: Advanced and BEC For the first time, Cambridge ESOL is exhibiting at the giant NAFSA annual conference in Kansas City. Nicola Johnson from Cambridge and Rafael Sánchez from Mexico City are introducing US universities and other institutions to our C1 level qualifications Cambridge English: Advanced and BEC Higher, both of which are ideal preparation for higher education in an English-speaking country. The response from US universities has been very positive and we expect that it will lead to some high profile recognition in the near future. NAFSA has long been an important conference for IELTS, which once again has a high profile at the conference. ... more

1. August 28-29: Plastira Lake: The PALSO Federation is holding its 28th Annual Conference
2. August 29: Thessaloniki: “Shakespeare in the language classroom” David Gibson will speak on behalf of TESOL Macedonia-Thrace
3. August 29: Thessaloniki: The Annual Autumn International Publishers Book
4. August 30-31: Thessaloniki: The 23rd Annual Northern PALSO Association’s
5. September 4-5: Athens: The Annual Autumn International Publishers Book
6. October 3: Thessaloniki: TESOL Macedonia-Thrace is holding a ‘welcome back’ event at the Anatolia College.
7. 19-20 March 2011: Thessaloniki: The 18th TESOL Macedonia-Thrace Convention