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A MEITS workshop entitled Issues of L2 Mandarin Chinese was held on 16 December 2016 at the School of Chinese as a Second Language of Peking University, Beijing.

The MEITS project celebrated its official launch event on 10 November 2016 at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. We were delighted to welcome members of the Project Advisory Board, as well as representatives from several of our non-HE project partners.

As part of the Festival of Ideas, Cambridge Bilingualism Network recently welcomed Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett who presented an overview of the MEITS project, highlighting the importance of promoting the value of languages in the UK and beyond, and the need for greater collaboration in terms of both research and policy.

Northern Ireland Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir applauds the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project at the Irish and Celtic Studies School of Modern Languages in Queen's University, Belfast.

Professor Graham Virgo, PVC for Education at the University of Cambridge, expresses strong support for the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Modern Languages' appeal to Government to ensure that improving the UK's language skills is treated as an urgent policy issue.

Listen to a short interview about the proposed pop-up Museum of Languages especially made to celebrate the European Day of Languages.

To celebrate the European Day of Languages on 26 September, MEITS launched the project website which will be central for disseminating information about our research and its impact. It will host audio and video podcasts, blogs, a gallery of academic outputs and our open-access online journal, Languages, Society and Policy. Join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter and let us know what you think!