Post-16 (Further & Higher Education)

CILT Cymru/LLAS Partnership

While CILT Cymru has been establishing itself as the motive force behind the support of modern languages in Wales, the Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies Subject Centre (LLAS) has been establishing itself as the motive force in the support of modern languages at university level across the UK.

Because CILT Cymru's strengths are in the schools sector, supporting teachers and pupils, a partnership with LLAS makes sense, to provide a more comprehensive service at all levels of education and in the wider social and business community.

• provide university staff with opportunities to and develop teaching and learning methods by exchanging experience and examples of good practice with colleagues from Wales, the UK, Europe and further afield
• Two workshops aimed at the needs of university staff will be organised by CILTC each year.
  
  
• Gather language learning materials in the Resources collections, mainly at the principal CILT Cymru Centre in Cardiff Bay, but also at the regional centres in UW Aberystwyth and UW Bangor.
  
  
• Encourage HEIs to develop a coorinated national strategy for languages, linguistics and areas studies in Wales.
• The most thorough Strategic Review ever of HE MFL in Wales, currently bring carried out for HEFCW, provides a unique opportunity to take up this challenge.
• The Report on the Review, due to be published in the autumn 2004, will provide the information on and analyses of trends in the recent past the current situation, likely developments and options for remedial action.
  
  
• Promote collaboration betwen departments of area studies, linguistics, foreign languages, Welsh language and Welsh medium teaching and learning in Welsh.
  
  
• Enable individual staff and departments to access funding at and initiatives Welsh, UK and European level which can benefit the LLAS community in Wales.
  
  
• Develop joint links with government bodies and the business community.

As a channel of communication and advice between the the Partnership and the academic community it serves, an Advisory Board has been set up, with representatives of each the academic areas involved.

If learning Modern Languages in the UK is to survive as part of our culture, all of us passionately committed to this cause must work together, from primary, through secondary, FE, HE and life long-learning ; in homes and places of work. The CILT Cymru/ LLAS Partnership has been established to help achieve that.