From today's Guardian
'Notebook' column:
· A small but significant announcement from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority this week.
Latin and Classical Greek have received a minor boost through changes to the exam board OCR's
GCSE and A-level syllabuses. Students will have to learn less vocabulary and shorter set texts.
And more good news on the same front. Barbara Bell, classics teacher at Clifton high school in Bristol
and the creator of the popular Minimus textbooks, which provide an introduction to Latin
for 7- to 13-year-olds, is the first winner of the Classical Association's new annual prize
for “the individual who has done the most to promote the study of language, literature and
civilisation of Ancient Greece and Rome”. The £5,000 prize will be awarded to Bell on April 1
at the association's annual conference at the University of Reading. The prize – to be awarded
annually – has been made possible by a donation by Sir Jeremy Morse,
former chancellor of Bristol University. Lingua Latina mirabilis est! (Latin is so cool…)
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