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Education providers
Support for you and your language programmes
Languages and Enterprise Activity
For ideas on how to develop enterprising activities with your students on Languages in Business click here.
North West University Language Alliance (NWULA)
With the support of the RLN NW, the Universities of Bolton, Central Lancashire, Chester, Edge Hill, Lancaster, Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores, Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan, and Salford have come together and created the NWULA. Its main purpose is to promote language learning to young people in the region.
Learn more
Case studies
As well as business case studies the RLN is working with a number of schools to produce case studies which show how languages can be made relevant to the students.
Riply St Thomas case study (PDF)
Visit the school website
Smithills School case study (PDF)
Visit the school website
Vocational languages resource bank
The VLRB offers free resources and ideas for teachers to use in their classrooms when delivering courses with a vocational slant. Some examples of these are the Certificate in Business Language Competence (CBLC), National Vocational Qualification language units (NVQ), ABC Certificate in Practical Languages, National Open College Network (NOCN), NCFE Certificate in Foreign Language and Applied GCSE in French.
Find out more here
VALEUR Project update
The VALEUR (Valuing All Language in Europe) project has now produced a draft 'map' of all the languages spoken in the 22
countries represented and the educational provision available for them.
Click here for more information
Providing up-to-date, interesting and relevant information on careers using modern languages. For more information on how to inspire your students.
Visit Languages Work
The Comenius Network supports implementation of the National Language Strategy in the nine English regions. The network aims to build on existing partnerships to bring language teachers in contact with training and support.
Visit Comenius North West
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Our international clients really appreciate it when our staff make the effort to speak to them in their own language, even if it is limited to the odd bit of social chit-chat. Nigel Wallis, DWF Solicitors
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Ten top tips for teachers
The RLN NW has produced another in its popular series of tent cards. This one is aimed at teachers who want to work with businesses.
Find out more and order your copy
Business Language Champions
We are developing a project linking language activity in schools with industry.
More on this to be announced shortly.
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