Awarded by the university's school of literatures, languages and cultures, the prizes were founded by Janet Coats, widow of publisher James Tait Black, to commemorate her husband's love of reading.

BBC: From the section Scotland

In a sign of the times, Turkish and English are the languages of instruction at a top private school in Irbil.

NPR: 10 Years After US Invasion, Kurds Look To The West

Last autumn, England's schools watchdog, Ofsted, reported a fall in the number of teenagers studying languages at school.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Big fall in university languages

Primary school children from Berkshire and Oxfordshire will get a taste of different languages, cultures and histories.

BBC: More primaries teaching languages

Many are from far-flung American Indian reservations, and their high-tech devices are serving a decidedly old-school purpose: trying to save their languages from the brink of extinction.

NPR: To Save Endangered Languages, Tribes Turn To Tech

Meadlands has pupils who between them speak 22 different languages and the number of pupils qualifying for free school meals - a standard marker of deprivation - is higher than the national average, as well as the local average.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Making the most of life's chance

My desire to help these children led me to return to school to earn my Masters of Arts in Teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) at Johns Hopkins University.

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