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Greig City Academy is the only state school in Haringey to offer a classics course and a Latin GCSE. The school is also part of the Mandarin Excellence Programme. The Greig Trust and the Church of England co-sponsor the Academy. [1] David Greig, a successful local businessman, founded the Greig Trust in memory of his mother in 1949.
The initiative aims to boost GCSE Latin entries and will be modelled on the success of the Mandarin Excellence Programme, launched in 2016 in response to the growing importance of Mandarin as a global language. The programme now involves 75 schools across the country with more than 6,000 pupils learning Mandarin towards fluency. [26] With the ...
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John Webb, the British architect, went a step further. In a Biblical vein similar to Kircher's, he tried to demonstrate that Chinese was the Primitive or Adamic language . In his An Historical Essay Endeavoring a Probability That the Language of the Empire of China Is the Primitive Language (1669), he suggested that Chinese was the language ...
The British Accreditation Council (BAC) for independent higher education and further education institutions across the UK. BAC is also a member of INQAAHE and ENQA. [3] [6] Accreditation UK, part of the British Council (a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office [36]), for English language schools only [37]
The 2015 British Council Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Henry Widdowson, is a leading authority in applied linguistics and in communicative language teaching, an approach which stresses the importance of interaction, authentic, natural language, a focus on the learning process, and on the student's personal experiences both inside and ...
The BBC programme quoted from a 1948 document sent by the Chief of Police in Rangoon to the British Ambassador stating their belief that there had been British involvement in the assassination of Aung San and his Cabinet for which one of his political opponents was hanged and that "the go-between" had been a British Council official named in ...
Woodrush High School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in the parish of Wythall in the English county of Worcestershire. [1]Woodrush High School offers GCSEs, BTECs and Cambridge Nationals as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels and further BTECs.