At a glance headlines: September 5, 2013

SecEd has this month launched a new online service for teachers and school leaders – SecEd TV. The free facility acts as a collation service for professional education films and information from across the web. We have pulled together films focusing on CPD, school leadership, education policy and debate, good teaching, lesson ideas and much more. It is designed to save you time when searching for useful content. You can view the films for free online and more will be added during the coming months. Visit: www.sec-ed.co.uk/secedtv

Pupils can find modern language lessons in early secondary school “boring” because they often have to repeat material they have already learned in previous years. However, the research, by Katherine Richardson of the University of Nottingham and involving 335 year 6 and 7 pupils, found that they do value the studying of languages. It also concludes that transition in languages remains “challenging and problematic”, with not enough liaison between primaries and secondaries. For example, many primary pupils did not know if they could continue with their language in year 7. The paper was presented at the British Educational Research Association this week.