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...
by admin | Feb 4, 2014 | Business
What do the 10 most important languages for the UK’s future and the 10 foreign languages taught by the VICI Language Academy in Newbury have in common? Absolutely everything – they are identical! In a widely reported report published by the British Council ‘Languages...
by admin | Feb 4, 2014 | Business
In the global marketplace it is becoming ever easier for UK workers to travel abroad for the right job and of course for foreign workers to bring their skills back here. Looking more closely at those foreign workers, the experience at VICI is that typically the...
