I've only just been told! Radio four recorded a Latin in the Parks session   more »

Rap songs performed in Latin are being held up as an antidote to the dumbing down of English and French at a festival in Europe.   more »

Jamie Keller started teaching Latin at Lenox Memorial High School 20 years ago. It was a very part-time job: one class, eight students. She has since built the program to 60 students, with a biennial trip to Rome and visits from Italian student groups on alternate years.   more »

The demand for Latin teachers in schools is going up, while the supply is going down. "Universities aren't producing enough, so we're all scrabbling around for the same people," says Andrew Hutchinson, headteacher at Parkside Community College in Cambridge - a comprehensive serving the centre of the city.   more »

Nancy Erickson teaches Latin at University Preparatory School in Redding, where all students are required to take at least one year of the language. The following is an excerpt from a recent conversation.   more »

A few years ago the study of Latin appeared to be in terminal decline, owing perhaps to its negative association with rod-backed private education. But there are signs that it is reviving, and as Nicholas Ostler remarks in the preface to Ad Infinitum, “now is the time for a book about Latin”.   more »

The 50 eight-year-olds at the Braydeston Avenue school have had the chance of learning the 'dead' language as part of an outreach programme delivered by the Latin department of the Norwich School.   more »

Why should anyone care whether more people are studying Latin in the Age of the iPhone?   more »

Independent MSP Margo MacDonald, who was taught Latin at school herself, is to spearhead a campaign to highlight the benefits the classical language can have in improving basic English.   more »

The book notorious for its gratuitous and terminological-inexactitude-full attack on the Cambridge Latin Course has, it seems come out in America under the title Carpe Diem and, I understand, with the offensive chapter removed.   more »

Here is the promised video from the Latin and Greek for All stand at this year's Language Show at Olympia.   more »

Three representatives of ArLT were helping staff the Latin and Greek for All stall at The Language Show at Olympia (the one in London) this afternoon.   more »

Since my computer is unconscionably sluggish today I just gave the link:   more »

A decade ago, only four pupils there were studying Latin and classics. This year, there are more than 100 taking exams in the classics department, which has two Latin teachers.   more »

Well, maybe my heading is a bit sweeping, but judge for yourself when you read this from the Oxford Mail.   more »

I reproduce the Guardian piece linked in the last post.   more »

Just a couple of news pieces on the iris project's work in Hackney schools   more »

I'm not going to pass on any more of this year's newspaper reports of local successes in the National Latin Exam. Let this one be a reminder of the publicity that US Classics departments achieve through this exam.   more »

In 2002, there were 1,101 community college students taking Latin, up from 840 students in 1998, and more than double from the 497 students in 1986.   more »

You may like to know that I was invited to talk about the situation of Latin in schools on yesterday morning's Good Morning Ulster programme.   more »

A most interesting and comprehensive dossier - not at all dodgy, as far as I can see - has been sent to me   more »

The view of Roman life purveyed in this piece from This is Hampshire may be excessively lurid, but at least the paper/website is using the interest aroused by 'Rome' on BBC2 to tell its readers about the Romans in their own neck of the woods. Have you got a similar story you could give to your local paper?   more »

I had just posted the excellent news from Martin at the Cambridge Schools Classics Project when I opened this email. This could be another opportunity to keep the bandwagon moving:   more »

The OCR Classics e-community is busy pooling arguments for and quotations about the uses of learning Latin.   more »

Latin came alive Monday at Bridgewater-Raritan Middle School as students created a museum to illustrate what they have learned about the ancient language.   more »

Following good media coverage of the 'Latin in state schools' survey, Will Griffiths writes:   more »

Tory MP Boris Johnson is expected to don a toga to receive a petition against plans to scrap the last remaining ancient history A-level.   more »

Pictures from the Certamen In Concordiam Europae Regionum Omnium   more »

"I thought you might be interested to know that the 6th Form Latin competition I am organising as a joint video-conferencing project with teachers in France and Germany is starting to attract some very welcome interest and could end up giving the cause of Classics teaching some good publicity."   more »

The third edition of iris magazine will be out next month and is available to order now by replying to this email or subscribing through the website at www.irismagazine.org . The contents of this issue centre loosely around the theme of ancient healing, and include:   more »

But by the time I went on to do my A-levels, there were only three of us doing Latin and we had a new teacher. She was very young, not long down from Cambridge, and she was great. Her lessons had a very different feel. Sometimes we would even be invited to her house. Imagine that! She was rather glamorous and wore very heavy black eye make-up, and in the holidays would travel to places like Italy and Greece and when she got back would hint at unhappy love affairs. Well, to me, nearer to the gods you could not get. I just thought she was fantastic.   more »