Languages

If women in particular must watch what they say for fear of a social media mauling, public scholarly fora will be the poorer, warns Charlotte Galpin

Tributes paid to expert in English language testing

The rising tide of degree courses offered in English has sparked a backlash as some communities fear their young people and their mother tongues will be squeezed out

Scholarly prose can be verbose and unclear, and can obscure the point you are trying to make. Joe Moran offers his top 10 tips for writing well

Courses in Dutch language and literature are now more popular in Poland than in the Netherlands, figures suggest

Provided universities offer other avenues to debate contentious issues, institutes’ pro-China stance should not be a deal-breaker, says Jeffrey Gil

Massey hopes to allow diaspora to share in resurgence of interest in indigenous culture 

Criticism of ‘obsolete’ passages by Gallic political leaders has led to a ban on new students learning French

Students will spend two years at Trinity College Dublin and two at Columbia University

Rare disciplines face a multitude of threats but are key to the biodiversity of academia, advocates say

Most finished integration courses, but few ended up with advanced German skills – and the vast majority were male

Academic whose research interests were shaped by an African childhood remembered

As Brexit nears, Dublin plans to upgrade the country's language skills

Specialist expertise in languages and cultures should be given strategic protection within universities, says Alice Campbell-Cree

Jonathan Mirsky applauds the story of an invention that has been vital in preserving Chinese script and culture in the modern information age

Study reveals that there are now 2,900 English-medium undergraduate programmes in continental Europe

Peking University joins the top 20 of the Times Higher Education subject table for the first time

But critics claim that French students are already well served in the province

University of Malta could offer financial incentive for students who apply with a Maltese qualification

Some University of Hamburg academics fear decline in German scholarship, and believe international students should learn German

Stephen Hutchings and Yaron Matras call for the modern languages community to be proactive in what are difficult times for the discipline

Lobby group says that law requiring classes to be taught in Dutch must be enforced

Academic who prized French popular and high culture is remembered

Report raises concerns about academic freedom and funding structures

Putting a bottom line value on language skills is a laudable aim, but the benefits and challenges of linguistic diversity merit more exploration, says Ingrid Piller

Matthew Reisz reflects on the role of universities in overcoming monolingualism

Old Germanic languages are back in vogue, but what value are they to a modern-day graduate? Alice Durrans writes

Discipline needs to forge new research agendas and promote its benefits more effectively, workshop hears

American Academy of Arts and Sciences warns that problem exists from school right through to university

Speaking a foreign language remains vitally important in the Brexit era, says Wendy Ayres-Bennett

Number of students placed on results day drops 8 per cent year-on-year

Academics working in English studies consider what Brexit means for their discipline

Fewer students expected to come to UK from Continent in wake of Brexit

Analysis finds men and ethnic minorities under-represented in international cohort

We talk to the French academic and novelist about her ambitions in nuclear physics and REF fatigue

Students at Eduardo Mondlane University will have the chance to visit Chinese universities

Students who had an opportunity to learn a foreign language more likely to want to study abroad, research reveals

Further cuts to modern languages departments have raised concerns about increasing elitism

UK maintains its strength in the arts while US loses ground

A leading expert on medieval French language and lexicography has died

A scholar, novelist and photographer whose work drew on her past as a Jewish émigré from the Soviet Union has died

Having attended classes in Shanghai for a year, David Matthews returns a little more sceptical about education in the country

Computing, maths and business management in line for ‘rationalisation’ as spending cuts hit institution

Luister details alleged discrimination against black students at leading institution

A linguist who helped radically transform the BBC Russian-language courses has died

The merger of seven subpanels into a single one for modern languages and linguistics has skewed results, claim scholars

Pair of employees at the American University in Dubai deny criminal charges

Study finds that students choose to major in subjects that are ‘more challenging’ in bad economic times

Report attributes decline to UK government trebling tuition fees 

Human error blamed for issue of statement detailing £12K debt

Michelle Aldridge on a comprehensive presentation of the case that human verbal communication emerges from use

Kerstin Hoge on a manifesto correcting the view that the language we speak affects how we think

A British Academy report urges universities to help stem a decline in provision of languages with “strategic importance for defence and diplomacy”.

Roger Rees on gaining some understanding of the linguistic and literary richness of Latin poetry without knowing the language