This report focuses on language learning at Key Stage (KS) 3, and highlights learning and teaching approaches that pupils and practitioners report are working well.

It also sets out several strategies, introduced recently, by a number of schools, which have yet to have an impact on uptake, but which demonstrate the value these schools place on languages, and their commitment to promoting language learning.
Features
- An evaluation of the Step Up Project in the Further Education Colleges in Northern Ireland 18 April 2025
- School Inspection update 14 April 2025
- ETI update February 2025 to June 2025* 03 February 2025
- Working for ETI - Recruitment Opportunity 06 January 2025