The National Consortium for Languages Education
Funded by the Department for Education (DfE), the Language Network programme, led by the National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE) aims to increase the number of students studying a language at GCSE and will encourage students to continue to study languages at advanced level, nurturing a lifelong interest in languages.
The NCLE Vision
We believe that languages and intercultural agility can help to foster universal understanding and contribute to building a peaceful and harmonious world future.
We recognise that Global Britain needs more and better language skills. In our globalised economy, language skills and intercultural understanding add value and widen opportunities for individuals, communities and society.
To fulfil this potential, we must leverage the value of all our languages by providing high quality language teaching in schools to increase languages uptake at GCSE. We must better recognise and support the rich diversity of languages in addition to English, spoken by one in every five of our students. In addition, we intend to provide levelling up opportunities for disadvantaged students and address the performance of boys.
We believe in collaboration, creativity and collegiality. To build capacity in languages across the regions, we listen to teachers and students, and develop core and bespoke training to meet their language learning needs.
We are committed to building progress through policy, principles, professional development and promotion. We uphold the recommendations and principles enshrined in Sir Ian Bauckham’s 2016 Modern Foreign Languages Pedagogy Review (MFLPR2016).
For more information on the NCLE, please visit their website.