GRADUATE TEACHERS PROGRAMME

The Cultural Department of the French Embassy in the UK runs this programme jointly with the British Council and the National Centre for Languages (CILT). This is an employment-based route for French natives to become qualified French teachers in England. Candidates must have already graduated (Maîtrise level) and possess the maturity and relevant experience (often, one year as a Foreign Language Assistant) to cope with an important teaching load at the same time as their training.

www.britishcouncil.org/education/teachers/gtp.htm

INITIAL TEACHER TRAINING PRIMARY LANGUAGES PROJECT

or Projet de Formation Croisée des Maîtres

The Initial Teacher Training Primary Languages Project began as a one-year pilot in September 2001 as a joint initiative of the Teacher Training Agency and the Ministère de l'Education Nationale, supported by CILT, the National Centre for Languages. In its first year, the project brought together higher education institutions in England and IUFMs in France with the common purpose of providing teacher training for the primary sector that included an element of teaching a foreign language. Each of the five universities was twinned with an institution in the partner country, allowing the exchange of ideas between students and trainers as well as the opportunity to spend a period abroad in the partner country as part of the training.

Due to the initial success of this project, further places were allocated on these courses to enable 13 universities to be twinned with partner institutions in the second year of the initiative. Over this two-year period, the Agency, working closely with the French Government and the Cultural Department of the French Embassy, held a number of workshops and conferences to support the initiative.
Now in its third year, the scheme has further expanded to include partner higher education institutions in Germany and Spain.

www.langprim.org

LC-SE PROJECT

The LC-SE project is jointly managed by the Specialist Schools Trust, with the support of the DfES, and the French Ministry of Education (CIEP), with the support of the Cultural Department of the French Embassy in the UK.
The aims of the project are to facilitate long-lasting partnerships between Language Colleges and schools in France with Sections Européennes, based on jointly planned projects which meet the needs of learners in both schools.

www.lc-se.net

MASTER FLE (1) - PGCE: THE EUROPEAN TEACHER PROGRAMME

The programme was initially conceived in the early 1990s in response to the shortage of modern language teachers in schools in the South East of England. Several Local Education Authorities combined forces with the Cultural Department of the French Embassy in the UK and a consortium of French higher education institutions to recruit French students to undertake a PGCE in England and then follow an innovative and creative course of study culminating in a dual award of the Maîtrise FLE and the PGCE. This makes them, in the process, true European teachers, able to teach in England or in France.

www.ucsm.ac.uk/courses/education/pgce/maitrise.php