The transition year led Paul Mescal and Cillian Murphy to become actors – and has had similarly seismic affects on thousands of secondary school students. Should other countries follow suit?‘If you know your Flann O’Brien, you’ll know that bike mainten…
Once seen as a rite of passage, seasonal jobs in the rest of Europe are off limits for many – but some still make it workGrowing up near the Peak District in Glossop, Derbyshire, gave 18-year-old Seb Kinsey a passion for geography, geology and the outd…
Joan Walley on how the efforts to promote the teaching of German in Stoke on Trent are bearing fruit. Plus letters from Veronica Hardstaff and Keith HaywardThe Goethe Institute is right to insist that the shocking decrease in the number of A-level stud…
With A-level entries for the language halving in a decade, a new initiative is hoping to save it from the academic scrapheapWhen Londoner Amber Tallon started learning German at the age of 12, she “took to it like a duck to water”, she says.An A-level …
