What are Language Colleges?
The Vision of a Language College (extract from Language Colleges a Guide for Schools Dfee July 2000) Language colleges will raise standards of achievement in modern foreign languages for all their students across the ability range, leading to whole school improvement in performance. They will be active partners in a learning society with their local families of schools and their communities, sharing resources and developing and sharing good practice. Language Colleges will promote an educational culture which is international, technological and vocational. They will raise the post-16 participation rate in modern foreign languages, and provide young people with the skils needed to progress into employment, further training or higher education according to their individua abilities, aptitudes and ambitions. The Language College Initiative is part of the specialist schools programme which includes the development of specialist schools for sports, arts, technology in partnership with priva
