Routes into languages:

Working together for the future

Prof Mike KellyDirector, Routes into languages13 June 2012

Working together in Routes

2 National Networks10 Consortia77 Universities2,700 Student language ambassadors

2,000 schools230,000 School students reached

Working with stakeholders

Funding bodies Government agenciesAssociations

Local authoritiesSchool leadersBusinesses

Co-opetition

Managed competition

Shared brand

Customer focus

Reciprocal benefits (recruitment, awareness raising)

Co-opetition

Collaborative activities (e.g. national competitions)

Sharing materials (DVDs, Websites, Research)

Exchanging ideas and good practices

Looking to the future

Strategic importance of languages

Recognised by government

Initiatives in primary, secondary, higher education

Speaking to the future

All languages are valuableCoherent experience of languages in

primaryWorking knowledge of another language

in secondaryAll graduates qualified in another

languageMore specialist linguists (translators,

interpreters, teachers, researchers)

Routes: core aims

Sustain national capacity in languages

Show the career benefits of languages

Raise aspirations and achievement

Reach wider range of learners

What Routes can add

Become integral to the mission of schools and universities

Encourage work and study abroad

Stimulate future teachers

Raise the profile of languages