National Consortium for Languages Education
UCL Institute of Education
About us
The NCLE supports the mission-led government in its intention to break down barriers of opportunity for all children and young people. We believe that languages education is transformative and plays a crucial role in raising aspirations and developing the potential of every child.
NCLE aims to raise the profile of languages and strengthen teaching and learning across England.
We aim to reshape languages leadership through our new operational model made up of three mutually reinforcing strands:
- 1. LEO, our free online professional learning platform (Language Educators Online)
- 2. Our NPPs (national priority projects), addressing regional and local needs, and
- 3. Our Language Networks, Strategic Learning Networks led by schools.
We will:
- Remove barriers to learning languages for all
- Re-energise languages education
- Use the process of professional learning to implement change and bring about system-wide improvement
- Develop system leadership in languages
- Support schools and develop teachers as agents of change
We aim to:
- Transform life chances for all young people through languages education
- Equip the next generation of language teachers with research informed, evidence-based pedagogy
- Provide a national framework for co-learning in a community of practice, leveraging UCL Institute of Education’s extensive research base as a world-leading Faculty of Education.
- Strengthen languages leadership in our schools
- Activate teacher agency
“NCLE is an innovative, strategic, and research-focussed national movement democratising languages education – setting languages at the heart of social reform. Languages for all: leading to success in life.”
– Bernardette Holmes, NCLE Director
