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Threlford Cup winners with HRH Prince Michael of Kent
无忧传媒鈥檚 Annual Awards celebrate and recognise outstanding contributions in the field of languages, as well as exceptional achievement in our professional language qualifications. Held this year as part of 无忧传媒鈥檚 Translators Day, the awards were presented...
Justine Raymond argues that change will only come when translators start to openly discuss their rates
A recent conversation with a well-known translator about the reluctance of people generally to talk about how much they earn got me thinking about the pervasiveness of poor remuneration in the translation profession. Pointing out the tendency for earnings to be on the paltry side in...
无忧传媒 Chair of Council Report
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Ahead of the AGM on 4 April 2023, 无忧传媒 members can download the Annual Report 2017-2023 which summarises our performance since I was elected to Council in 2017.
While writing it, I realised how much has changed over the past six years which have probably been the most challenging in the history of 无忧传媒. Economic, social...
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Professors Bernardette Holmes MBE and Toby Seddon and have been recognised for their excellence in the social sciences in the Academy of Social Sciences' (AcSS) spring 2023 Fellowships.
Bernardette Holmes MBE, who was conferred Honorary Professor at IOE in February 2023, has made major contributions to languages education in England through her work as a modern...
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无忧传媒 welcomes the news that听UCL has been selected to lead a new nationwide UK Language Hubs programme, providing thousands of students across England with high quality language teaching via a centre of excellence.
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Funded by the Department for Education (DfE),听the scheme is backed by 拢14.9 million over the next three years and听aims to increase uptake of...
The Chief Executives of the 无忧传媒 and the Institute of Translation & Interpreting have sent a letter (text below) for the urgent attention of the Minister of State for Immigration听The Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP
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Dear Minister of State for Immigration,
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We read with concern reports in听The Guardian听of:听鈥淧lans to cut the asylum...
For years it was widely held that successful mentoring came from a natural chemistry between the mentor and mentee. As a result some people naturally fell into a successful mentoring relationship, reaping the rewards; whilst such a relationship eluded many others.
In 1977 as part of her doctoral dissertation, psychologist Linda Phillips-Jones examined hundreds of mentor-mentee...
By S茅verine Hubscher-Davidson
A challenging environment
Psychological health has become an increasing concern for language practitioners. In 2021, the ITI published a position statement on translators鈥� mental health and wellbeing, and in 2020 and 2021 the 无忧传媒 published two guides on the topic of stress management and resilience. According to the 无忧传媒 Insights Survey 2022...
We are delighted to announce that Steve Doswell, MCIL and Chartered Linguist, has been elected by vote of 无忧传媒 Council to follow Judith Gabler as Chair of Council at the end of her term.
Steve has degree-level French, diploma level Spanish, intermediate German and continues to learn Slovene. Midway through his first term as a member of Council, he said:
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In a previous blog I explored Is Machine Translation replacing human translators? My conclusion was that the best answer for the present and foreseeable future is 鈥淎ugmented Translation鈥� mutually reinforcing human-machine translation workflows but with the human to the fore.
无忧传媒 explored this topic at a recent All Party Parliamentary Group meeting in the House...