Careers Europe

The E-Newsletter

March 2009

Love Language Event

This one day event will aim to give teachers useful tools and techniques to encourage the uptake of language learning and help to engage and inspire language students. The conference will feature keynote speakers Barry Jones (former Principal Lecturer in MFL at the University of Cambridge) and Simon Green (Associate Principal Lecturer at Leeds Trinity & All Saints), as well as four workshops:

  • Tom Barwood: Foreign Languages? - Not me, mate!

  • Graham Davies: Engaging language learners with ICT

  • Ruth Linden: The use of languages at work

  • Bev Whiteside: Motivating language learners through sport

Project News

C-XtraEU

Careers Europe is pleased to be a partner in this Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of Innovation project.  The project aims to transfer an innovative, award-winning web-based questionnaire and toolkit, developed in the UK, to improve student retention rates in vocational education and training.  The transfer will take place between the UK and Austria, Portugal and Sweden.

For more information please visit the project website: www.c-xtra.eu

IAEVG Conference 2009

The IAEVG annual international conference will be held at Jyväskylä, Finland, during 3-5 June, 2009.
The theme of the conference is "Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling".
The Conference is organized by the University of Jyväskylä in co-operation with the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Employment and the Economy.