Routes into Languages in the East Midlands

Routes into Languages in the East Midlands Student Ambassadors Estefania Escobar Salazar (Ph. D. in Fashion Marketing) Nottingham Trent University James Philip Hewlett (Translator/Editor) University of Nottingham

East Midlands consortium • NTU is lead institution and works in partnership with University of Leicester, University of Loughborough, University of Nottingham, and De Montford (Leicester) • A taste of the East Midlands: Focus on Widening Participation, intercultural understanding, employability and careers, student mobility – Setting the context outside the walls of the classroom. • Student Ambassadors • Stakeholders: Embassies, Business Language Champions

Target audience • Demographics of the East Midlands: • Vast region: Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. • Rural • Wealth Vs Social Disadvantage and Deprivation • Markers: Postcode, Free School Meals School league tables/attainment

Routes East Midlands projects • • • E mentoring Web-based resources Adopt a class One day events Primary After School Language and Culture Clubs The pre-16 Bespoke Programme The post-16 Bespoke Programme Film Days European Day of Languages

Widening participation • In School and on–campus programmes • Collaboration with Outreach for delivery and selection • East Midlands Data Base = evaluating, monitoring and tracking. • Bespoke Programme and After School Clubs • Why target the WP audience?

Programmes at NTU The Bespoke programme specifically targets under 16 -year-olds from disadvantaged backgrounds and encourages Year 9 and 10 pupils from schools across the region to consider taking a foreign language GCSE, primarily in French or German (this year with Spanish), while also allowing them to experience university life in an effort to raise their educational aspirations. So far the results have been dramatic with the Bespoke Programme achieving a 95% success rate in the uptake of GCSE French and German among participants. Pre-16 and Post-16 bespoke programs.

Bespoke programme activities at NTU • • Language enrichment and tasters. Embassy trips. Go global. Presentation skills. International student panel. Why study languages presentation. Campus visits and tours. Languages such as Farsi, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Chinese (Tasters)

After school clubs • Six weeks starting in February. • Language (Ambassadors Learn Languages), cultural enrichment, and performance for Family Languages Supper. • One hour long sessions in schools. • Class teacher present to support. • Teaching in pairs. • Training and support for the process.

The Bespoke Programme – The Impact “It has been the most amazing project, not only in respect to the results – Parkside going from their French option in danger of disappearing from the curriculum to a now healthy class size, plus discussions to add Spanish to the provision – but also in the example of how collaboration can work. The way in which your team have worked with us has proven that when people are dedicated and committed, real success can be achieved. The programme has been exciting, innovative and challenging. Personally, this collaboration will be the standard by which I think collaboration should be measured. ” Rachael Nicholls, Aimhigher Derbyshire

Programmes at Uni. of Nottingham • GCSE and A-Level revision sessions • Y 10 -13 Taster Days on campus • Primary School MFL projects (2 nd Year Language students) • “Why Study Languages? ” and European Day of Languages • Undergraduate Ambassadors in Schools (Academic module)

Programmes at Uni. of Nottingham • • • Subject-focused events Foreign film workshops Bespoke School Visits University WP events (Master classes/Summer schools) University Tours and Open Days Applied-setting events

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