SCLS at conference on routes into languages
Staff and students from the Sussex Centre for Language Studies (SCLS) took part in a sixth-form conference exploring languages in the workplace.
At the ‘Love Languages? Live Languages!’ conference, on 9 March, SCLS staff offered taster sessions and workshops in Chinese and Japanese to around 140 sixth-form students from schools and colleges across the south.
The aim of the event, at the University of Brighton, was to highlight the value of languages in the workplace and to provide the students with information and advice about studying languages at university.
The sixth-formers heard from a SCLS student who explained how her languages had helped her to be selected for the team of volunteers involved in the 2012 London Olympics.
They also attended a number of planned talks and walked about a ‘market place’ where they were able to speak to undergraduates, teachers, university tutors/lecturers and business representatives.
The one-day conference was organised by Routes into Languages South, a consortium of universities based in the south of England, led by Brighton and including Sussex.