What is the Language Hubs Programme?

The National Consortium for Language Education (NCLE) is funded by the Department for Education (DfE) and is delivered by the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society (UCL IOE) in partnership with the British Council and the Goethe-Institut.

Tudor Grange Academy Solihull is proud to be a Language Hub Lead School.

We believe that knowledge of languages and culture can help to foster universal understanding and contribute to building a peaceful and harmonious world. We need a focus on language skills, so that our country can take its place in a globalised economy; widening opportunities for our students, community and society.

Funded by the Department for Education and led by the National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE), a network of Language Hubs is re-energising language learning in state-maintained Primary and Secondary schools across England.  

Language Hubs bring together language teachers to improve language education in England. Each Hub works with up to seven Partner Schools to improve learning opportunities and outcomes for all pupils.

Harnessing the expertise within their region, the Hubs will develop training and spread excellent practice to encourage more pupils to study languages.  

How does the Language Hub Programme Work?

The Languages Hub programme focuses on French, German and Spanish learning as they make up over 90% of GCSE entries.  It also recognises the value of home, heritage, and community languages, signposting to supporting materials and good practice, and working with supplementary schools.

We work to provide:

• High quality language teaching in schools.
• Increasing languages uptake at GCSE.
• Levelling up opportunities for disadvantaged pupils.
• Emphasis on improving the performance of boys in MFL.
• Better recognition of, and support for, the rich diversity of languages spoken in addition to English.