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Career Options for Graduates with a Modern Languages Degree (Part Two)

Part Two: Post-Uni Gap Year / Move Abroad / Graduate Schemes          Last week I posted ‘Career Options for Graduates with a Modern Languages Degree (Part One)‘ and here is Part Two of my career guide...

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8 Steps to Getting a First Class Degree in Modern Languages

          Most university students dream at some point or another of getting a First Class Honours Degree, the highest grade in the UK higher education system. 16% of all students manage it, and while...

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Guest Post: My Experience of Teaching Abroad in Rome as a British Council...

         Settit Beyene has just spent a year living and working in Rome as part of the British Council’s Comenius Assistantship programme. It bears similarities to the better-known Language Assistant...

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8 Reasons UK Millennials Should Try Working Abroad (and particularly in Asia)

Photo taken in Johannesburg after the 2013 One Young World summit One of the reasons why I originally started travel blogging, and publishing stories about my travels and different spells living in...

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Cultural Exchanges for Young People in the UK: Where to Find Them

The UK is very lucky to have so many options for cultural exchanges in foreign countries, although many young people in the UK don’t seem to be aware of just […]

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The Ultimate Guide to Exploring St Petersburg in Russia

The last trip of my sabbatical saw me head to the biggest country in the world: Russia! My two weeks in Russia were a last minute addition to the sabbatical […]

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Why Every Pupil Should Study a Foreign Language at A-Level

If I could write a letter to my 15-year-old self, I’d thank her profusely and congratulate her on taking one key decision. Although she had no idea at the time, […]

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4 Steps to Pick-up a Language you Haven’t Learned Since School

A popular goal on many people’s New Year’s Resolutions list is to learn a foreign language. As a nation, we Brits seem to really struggle with foreign languages, so much so that apparently only 25% of...

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The Well-Travelled Podcast Episode 8: 4 steps to learn a foreign language

Episode 8 of The Well-Travelled Podcast is now live! It’s all about how to actually set about learning a foreign language, based on my experience in gaining (and importantly maintaining) fluency in 3...

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Career talk: My experiences working internationally, jobs with languages and...

Today marks the start of National Careers Week here in the UK. I’m passionate about developing my own career and about supporting others to do the same, which I do through mentoring female students at...

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