by admin | Feb 25, 2014 | Business, News |
Once again a business has hit the headlines amid accusations that it banned foreign workers from speaking their native tongue while at work. At the distribution centre for Hobbycraft in Burton there are myriad languages spoken by workers for whom English is clearly a...
by admin | Feb 4, 2014 | Business |
This was the pertinent questions when I delivered a talk on languages and careers at St. Bartholomew’s School in Newbury in my capacity as the founder of The VICI Language Academy. Naturally I was already talking to young people who were either gifted at languages or...
by admin | Feb 4, 2014 | Business |
Business is full of sporting metaphors and as far as the VICI language Academy is concerned the multilingual example set by Arsene Wenger truly sets the standard that businesses should model themselves on. Arsenal’s latest signing the wunderkind Mesut Ozil has gone on...
by admin | Feb 4, 2014 | Business |
It seems like only yesterday the tabloid papers were filled with fear mongering headlines about Polish plumbers coming over here ‘stealing’ jobs… How different headlines this week suggest that no matter what your nationality, you will not win certain plumbing jobs...
by admin | Feb 4, 2014 | Business |
Without any sense of irony a branch of Domino’s pizza is insisting that all staff speak English, making it a disciplinary offence if they are caught speaking their native language. We know that the branch of the take away is doing this after Stuart Horton, a delivery...