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Baroness Coussins delivers Salford lecture






Posted by Tony Flynn on 22nd February 2010 at 12:40 PM
Baroness Coussins delivers Salford lecture
This week (Wednesday, 24 February) Baroness Jean Coussins, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages, will deliver a lecture at the University of Salford about the importance of learning and using modern languages

The lecture Parlez-Vous Zulu? is part of a series marking the 25th anniversary of Salford’s MA Translation programme by exploring the wider importance of language for society.

Baroness Jean Coussins, who was created a life peer in 2007 and sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords, read modern languages (French and Spanish) at Newham College, Cambridge, from 1970-1973.

She will talk about the importance of using modern languages and how learning can be mainstreamed in schools and further and higher education.

Baroness Coussins will also discuss the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages and its aims which include:

• To explore the educational, skills-related, employment, competitive and cultural benefits of learning and using modern languages throughout the UK
• To provide a parliamentary forum for information exchange, discussion and consultation
• To encourage and support policies and action to improve the take-up of modern languages in schools, further and higher education, in the workplace and in the community.

Head of the School of Languages, Dr Paul Rowlett, said: “I am delighted that Baroness Coussins is taking part in our lecture series. Such a high profile figure will help to draw the public’s attention to the need for modern languages in society.”

The lecture will take place in the Mary Seacole Lecture Theatre on the Salford campus at 6.00pm. A limited number of places are still available and can be reserved by emailing Deborah Lumb at d.lumb@salford.ac.uk or calling 0161 295 2096.



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