A lecture by Lynn Sherr given in April 2003 in New Hampshire contains some good ammo for promoting the study ...   more »

"Currently the A.R.L.T. is gearing up to provide teachers, parents and children with materials that will convince them of the value, the benefits and the pleasure of studying Latin" Whoops!! ... A Brian Bishop Broadside.   more »

I don't know how good this course is, but it's on the net and it's free! Find it here.   more »

This dates from 2000, but the site is still there - I stumbled across it just now. I was chiefly interested in the comments that a number of teachers made about Athenaze:   more »

Foursight Theatre are performing Hecuba in the British premiere of the new translation by John Harrison for Cambridge University Press. ...   more »

I'm a sucker for old-fashioned, genteel detective stories, where the murder takes place in a country house or, as in tonight's episode of Rosemary and Thyme on ITV, in a colonnaded prep school. One of the earliest scenes showed a Latin lesson in progress, and my heart sank. It was surely going to be the Latin teacher who turned out to be a twisted sadist and did the murder.

Lo and behold, ...   more »

An article in today's Education Guardian is all about the success of a Scottish e-learning university. Has anyone got experience of this? Is there anything we can pick up and use in our own field, from this initiative which has 75,000 students?   more »