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Eight French Young Women Could Be Ambassadors for a Day

For International Women's Day each year, British Embassies organise a competition in each country for a young woman aged 15-18 to come and discover what it's like to be an ambassador for a day. In 2026 the opportunity will be opened to eight young women. Applications need to be in by 4 January 2026.

La filière des terres rares : enjeux et défis

La dépendance de l’Europe à l’égard des terres rares chinoises, cruciales pour de nombreux secteurs clés, menace son économie et ses industries. Face au quasi-monopole de la Chine, l’UE s’organise.

Podcast - Le trumpisme est-il un fascisme ?

Peut-on qualifier de « fasciste » la politique de Donald Trump ? La question divise les historiens, les intellectuels et les politistes.

Livre - Cartographia

Françoise Bahoken et Nicolas Lambert racontent comment les humains ont progressivement cartographié l’espace qui les entoure.

Margaret Atwood and Stephen King Defend the Freedom to Read

Over the past two years, North America has witnessed a resurgence of book censorship in public and school libraries.

New Reading Guide: Americanah

Many of you asked if we would be producing a Reading Guide on Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, which is now on the  LLCER Terminale curriculum. We are happy to announce that it is now at the printers and will be available in the middle of November.

Halloween for All

A man in Austin, Texas, has made it his personal mission that every child can have a Halloween costume. In 2016, Christopher Waggoner moved into a house rather than an apartment and so trick or treaters came to his door on Halloween. He saw some kids watching the elaborate costumes other kids had ruefully. Now he spends all year collecting Halloween costumes to give away.

Breaking News: Women are Persons

On 18 October each year, Canada celebrates "Persons Day" in memory of the day in 1929 when women were legally recognised as "persons" in Canadian law, giving them access to political and institutional roles.

Livre - La France comme vous ne l'avez jamais vue

Amateurs d’anecdotes insolites et de géographies improbables, ce livre est fait pour vous ! Saviez-vous par exemple qu’il existe une trentaine de Venise en France, qu’il y a des répliques de la tour Eiffel éparpillées un peu partout dans le monde, ou encore qu’il existe un label « France moche » ?

La politique de cohésion de l’Union européenne

Depuis les années 1980’, l’Union européenne met en œuvre d’importants moyens pour réduire les écarts de richesses entre ses régions. Quels acteurs et quels moyens sont mobilisés pour mettre en œuvre la politique de cohésion de l’Union européenne ?

Mystery House

Tradition says that ghosts have fun at Halloween. But in San Jose, California, they have fun all year in a 160-room eccentric house built for them.

Railway Travel at 200

Taking the train is such a common activity and some of us do it every day, yet, yet passenger rail travel was only introduced 200 years ago. These A2/ A2+ activities focus on the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in September 1825 to carry freight and passengers, a major leap forward in the Industrial Revolution. This breakthrough was a revolution in everyone’s life in Britain, not only on an economic level but also on social and political ones.

Save the Date: British Short Films Festival All Around France

The "This is England" festival of British short films based in Rouen and the surrounding region is back. The 2025 edition  will take place from 15 to 23 November. A team of teachers has put together a special programme of screenings and teaching materials for primary, collège and lycée classes. And this year, it will be possible for teachers anywhere in France to ask a local cinema to organise a showing of one of the schools selections during this school year.

Jane Goodall: Into the Heart of the Wild

On October 1, 2025, the Jane Goodall Institute announced the passing of its founder, Dame Jane Goodall, at the age of 91.  Ethologist, primatologist, and United Nations Messenger of Peace, she devoted more than six decades to studying chimpanzees.

First Australian Art

The rooms of the Tate Modern are filled with the monumental art of Emily Kam Kngwarry, who depicted the life and beliefs of her Indigenous community in Australia's Northern Territory. Kngwarry came late to art and spent the last eight years of her long life producing giant paintings which are now considered the forefront of Australian art.

Commonwealth Young Person of the Year 2025

The Commonwealth Youth Awards honour young people from around the world for their work trying to advance one or more of United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. This year's winner, Stanley Chidubem Anigbogu from Nigeria, founded an organisation to transform waste into solar energy for people who have limited access to energy. The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 56 countries, most of which have a connection to Britain through past colonisation. The Commonwealth Youth Awards are for young activists and social entrepreneurs aged 15-29. Like many people in Nigeria, Stanley Chidubem Anigbogu didn’t have reliable access to electricity when he was growing up. Trying to do homework after dark meant using candles or kerosene lamps, which are the source of many accidents, and air pollution in the case of kerosene. Stanley founded LightEd during the COVID-19 pandemic. With a small team of young people, he has trained 6,000 students and recycled over 20,000 kilograms of plastic and electronic waste. LightEd is doubly good for the environment because it creates clean energy while also getting rid of waste. Their Light for Peace project targets people living in Displaced Persons Camps, who have had to flee their homes because of conflict. LightEd provides them with solar lamps and also builds solar-powered recharging stations by reusing old plastic tiles. These have repurposed over 5 tons of plastic waste, preventing pollution and methane emissions from landfills. Stanley's vision is to expand LightEd’s reach beyond Nigeria, with a goal of impacting 5 million lives across Africa by 2030. “Youth-led climate action is not just about addressing today’s issues; it’s about ensuring a sustainable future for the next generation,” he says. LightEd plans to introduce more Avatar Stations in underserved regions, expand the Light for Peace initiative, and improve recycling processes to make renewable energy solutions even more affordable and accessible. “What drives me most is the belief that sustainable development can only be achieved when we prioritize the needs of marginalized communities, empowering them with the tools and knowledge to solve their own problems," he says Stanley Chidubem Anigbogu describing the LightEd project: https://youtu.be/zK7CiE90HEI The Finalists Meet the four other finalists from four global regions, and discover their varied projects. Europe and Canada: Zubair Junjunia – United Kingdom SDG 4: Quality education At the age of 16, Zubair founded ZNotes, an online learning platform promoting global educational equity. It has been accessed by six million students across more than 190 countries. Pacific: Bethalyn Kelly – Solomon Islands SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production Bethalyn is president of the Resilience Innovation and Social Change Girls Club (RISC-GC), where girls participate in a number of activities, including the removal of plastic waste from the environment and recycling it into strong and durable pavement bricks. Asia: Murad Ansary – Bangladesh SDG 3: Good health and well-being Murad, a clinical psychologist, has founded a digital solution platform for mental health and emotional well-being in a country where many people had no access to help with mental-health problems. Caribbean: Nicholas Kee – Jamaica SDG 14: Life below water Nicholas is co-founder and CEO of Kee Farms, a regenerative ocean farm network focused on growing seaweed, oysters and other organisms to reduce greenhouse gases and increase ocean biodiversity. You could use these examples to add to Shine Bright 3e File 4 Teen entrepreneurs or Snapfile 7 Dive into Barbados about ocean plastic recycling.

Wicked for Good Video

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L’IA et l’emploi aux États-Unis d’Amérique

Le développement de l’IA bouleverse le marché du travail aux États-Unis alimentant de grandes craintes sur une possible explosion du chômage.

Celebrate Poetry Day in the Classroom

This year's UK National Poetry Day is on 2 October. A great opportunity to get some poetry into your class, and to explore this year's theme: Play. In any case, every day is Poetry Day!

Dinard British and Irish Film Festival 2025

The Dinard British and Irish Film Festival takes place from 1 to 5 October. There are five films in competition as well as a short-film section, documentaries and lots of special showings.

Shein dans les centres-villes en France

L’annonce de l’installation de boutiques Shein dans des grandes enseignes françaises déclenche les passions. Les représentants de la marque aux pratiques éthiques douteuses, tentent de défendre leur point de vue.

Continuité territoriale : enjeux et défis

Les ultramarins font face à des frais de transport élevés pour rejoindre l’Hexagone.   Des aides à la mobilité existent mais sont insuffisantes. La France est-elle encore apte à assurer sa continuité territoriale ?

Alain Damasio, Scarlett et Novak

Cette séquence clé en main est présente dans le numéro 674 de la NRP Collège. Avec  Scarlett et Novak , une nouvelle dont la lecture est aisée, Alain Damasio frappe un grand coup. Il dénonce dans un récit aussi bref qu’haletant notre addiction au téléphone et portable dont les écrans nous coupent du réel.

Robert Redford: A Star Among the Stars

Robert Redford died on September 16, 2025, at the age of 89, in his Sundance (Utah) home. A charming actor, Oscar-winning director, and founder of the world’s most important independent film festival, he spanned six decades of American cinema by combining seduction and rigor, star power and political conscience, Hollywood heritage and a desire for independence.

La démocratie française et les pétitions

Le 8 juillet 2025, l’Assemblée nationale votait en faveur de la loi Duplomb prévoyant, entre autres, de réautoriser l'usage agricole de l'acétamipride. Suite aux 1,6 millions de signature de la pétition contre la loi, l’Assemblée nationale s’apprête à réouvrir le débat. Peut-on parler de démocratie participative ?

Exposition - Paris-Belém

Coyote

Avec Coyote,  Sylvain Prudhomme donne une voix aux oubliés de la frontière entre le Mexique et les États-Unis.

Wednesday Addams and Mythological Creatures

The Netflix series Wednesday, now in its second season, draws upon the Addams Family cartoons created by Charles Addams in the 1930s. But it also takes inspiration from the abundant mythology of supernatural creatures in Western culture.

Faustus in Africa

William Kentridge’s work draws on South African culture and history as well as classical influences. He plunges his audience into a multi-sensory experience combining theatre, dance, music, film, drawing and animation. His show Sibyl is presented at Châtelet in Paris.

A Cinema Pioneer: Alice Guy

Alice Guy was one of the first and pioneering filmmakers, working in France and the U.S.A. at the beginning of cinema. Her contributions seemed to have been forgotten but she finally being recognised, with a retrospective at the Deauville Film Festival, a role in the Paris 2024 opening ceremony and an upcoming TV series devoted to her life and career. Guy was employed as a secretary by cinema pioneers the Gaumont brothers in 1894. Just two years later she persuaded them to let her make a 1-minute short, "The Cabbage-Patch Fairy", which is considered the first narrative film. This is a 1900 remake because the original film, along with many more of Guy's works, is lost: https://youtu.be/BMAsLtlJAQo Guy soon became head of production at Gaumont. She made over 200 films in ten years, experimenting with hand-coloured films and ones with a primitive form of synchronised sound. In 1907, she married cameraman Hubert Blaché and the couple moved to the United States. By 1910, Guy had started her own production company, Solax, in New Jersey. At that point the movie industry was based on the East coast, before the move to Hollywood. Solax was a success and Guy one of the leading filmmakers. But after 1920, she never made another film. Whether her husband's bad investments or sexism in the industry were to blame, she moved back to France with her children and her story was forgotten. She was awarded France's Legion of Honour in 1953, not long before her death in 1968. But interest grew in her story and in 2024 she was one of the ten pioneering women honoured with golden statues during the Paris Olympic opening ceremony. This year's Deauville Film Festival is showing a retrospective of six of her American productions. Her career on both sides of the Atlantic fit perfectly into the festival's ethos. And a TV series about Alice Guy's life is currently filming. The HBO-France Télévisions production stars Bérénice Bejo as the filmmaker. It should be on our screens in 2026. Find out more about Alice Guy in this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqlD7RLoNAI   There is more about Alice Guy in the sequence on American Cities in our online DNL textbook History 1re .