Partners

We are pleased to work with the following agencies and organisations

The Languages Company

has particular expertise in languages policy, learning and teaching and a particular key role to play in supporting languages in the UK and abroad.

We are pleased to work with the following agencies and organisations. This list is not exhaustive – please contact us if we have inadvertently omitted your organisation.

The main government/national agencies responsible for language education in the UK:

England

Department for Education – government department responsible for education policy
DFE Teaching Agency
OFSTED – school inspectorate in England
OFQUAL – qualifications agency in England

Scotland

Education Scotland – government department responsible for education policy, inspections and qualifications
SCILT – Scotland’s National Centre for Languages

Wales

Welsh Government – Education & Skills – government department responsible for education policy including bilingual (Welsh language) policy
WJEC – responsible for qualifications in Wales

Northern Ireland

NICILT – Northern Ireland’s Centre for Language Teaching & Research

National Organisations for Languages:

Alcantara Communications (authors of the annual Language Trends survey)
All Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages (APPG MFL)
Association for Language Learning (ALL) – England & Wales – see SALT below for Scotland
Association of University Language Centres (AULC)
British Academy
British Council
Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL)
Independent Schools Modern Languages Association (ISMLA)
National Association of Language Advisers (NALA)
NALDIC – the national subject association for EAL
National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education (NRCSE)
SALT – Scottish Association for Language Teaching
Speak to the Future – the campaign for languages
University Council of Modern Languages (UCML)

Embassies & European Institutions:

Project Partners

The Languages Company also works with many other institutions, particularly universities, individual experts and partners abroad, on a variety of different projects: please see individual projects for project partners.