In partnership with the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (School of Advanced Study, University of London), UCFL is pleased to support a Heads of Languages Special Interest Group, which works to bring together leaders of university Languages Schools and Departments across the country.
- Membership of the SIG will be extended to heads of departments and schools of languages (broadly defined) across the four nations of the UK.
- The SIG will work collaboratively with the joint UCFL-AULC SIG for academic directors of language provision, whose membership partially overlaps with the Heads of Languages SIG.
- The remit of the SIG will include the following (non-exhaustive list):
- advocacy for languages within HE, both within individual HEIs and nationally;
- development of schools outreach activities and consolidation of the pipeline from the secondary sector to HE, having regard to changes in the GCSE curriculum and other relevant factors;
- promoting the exchange of innovative ideas and other learning between HEIs and across the four nations of the UK, with an emphasis on the dissemination and co-ordination of best practice;
- development of an inclusive leadership pipeline for Languages in HE, having regard to EDI principles and perspectives from the different language sub-disciplines.
