Evaluation of Routes into Languages- Invitiation to tender

For full details, please visit the Routes into Languages website

Evaluation of Routes into Languages : Invitation to tender

1. The 9 Regional Consortia in England
2. National Network for Translation; National Network for Interpreting
3. Governance
4. Whole Programme (Consortia, Networks and Governance)

Introduction
The Routes into Languages Programme is a HEFCE and DCSF £8 million funded initiative to increase and widen participation in language study in higher education. It also aims to support the national role of HE languages as a motor of economic and civic regeneration. The Programme has been developed by the University Council of Modern Languages (UCML), the HE Academy Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) and CILT, the National Centre for Languages.

Evaluation is a key component of the Routes into Languages Programme and was written into the bid document which can be viewed on the Routes into Languages web pages www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk.
The evaluator will be appointed by, and report to, the Programme Steering Group and will work under the direction of the Programme Director and Programme Manager.

email: routes@soton.ac.uk

ROUTES INTO LANGUAGES ANNOUNCES A SECOND CALL FOR BIDS

Proposals are invited from English HEIs to lead a regional consortium in each of the following regions:
East of England
East Midlands
Greater London
South West
Yorkshire and the Humber
Regions as defined by Government Offices : http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/gor.asp


The Routes into Languages Programme is an England-wide HEFCE and DfES initiative, to increase and widen participation in language study in higher education funded by HEFCE as part of its programme of work to support strategically important and vulnerable subjects.

Further funding has now been made available by the DfES in response to the recommendations of the Dearing review of languages. The Programme has a particular focus on the continuation of language studies post-14. It also aims to support the national role of HE languages as a motor of economic and civic regeneration. The Programme is funded to July 2010. Routes into Languages was developed by the University Council of Modern Languages (UCML), the HE Academy Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS) and CILT, the National Centre for Languages. See http://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk

Full text of the Call for Bids, the Frequently Asked Questions, and sample successful bid papers are available on the website.

Routes into languages: Who got that cash?

Who got that cash?

Anthea Lipsett
Published: 11 May 2007

It took a consortium of three different organisations and some serious persuasion to secure the Routes into Languages programme's £4.5 million grant from the Higher Education Funding Council for England to bolster language study in the UK.
The programme, which is run by the national languages subject centre at Southampton University with the University Council of Modern Languages and the National Centre for Languages, is made up of outreach work in schools and three research projects


Friday, 11th May 2007
Times Higher Education Supplement (subscription required), p.52