Universities, schools and colleges in every part of the world face the same dilemma: if they are to grow and serve their nations, they must internationalise. Invariably, this means evaluating the systems they use, looking critically at the education and human resources and reconsidering the language in which they are taught.

Our programmes respond to this increasing worldwide need to train practitioners and teaching staff in universities to apply international standards to administration, teaching and learning, and to use the medium of English language as part of their teaching and personal development.

They are a lifeline both for newly-qualified Higher Education teachers who find themselves teaching in English, and for experienced teaching professionals looking to enhance the quality of their teaching through short programmes.

They will equip forward-looking and ambitious teaching, administrative and research staff with the language and professionalising skills to meet international standards of teaching and learning, enabling your institution to develop its links and exchanges and raise its international standing.

Continued Professional Development for teachers and lecturers

The Language Services Unit offers courses in:

• Education management and Training
• Micro skills in classroom teaching
• Academic Language Skills
• Learning Theory & Knowledge
• Enhancing Teacher Knowledge & Methodology
• Intensive Language Skills

We also run courses through the year leading to Professional Teaching Qualifications and IELTS.

The micro skills classes and language skills classes will be classroom based, intensive student-centred activities. Education Management and Training will be a mixture of presentations, observation forums, workshops and practical design tasks in which the participants can put their ideas into practice. All aspects of the programme involve experienced practitioners and theorists from our departments.

Study visits and practical experience

As part of the professionalising course, participants will join coffee mornings with counterparts, visit local schools and institutions and have the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with local practitioners.

Britain is your classroom

To complement our programme, we arrange social and cultural events to major attractions for overseas contracts. Cambridge is an ideal resource in this regard. Where possible we can arrange experience days in faculties and departments at universities, in which our clients would be able to observe lessons, track students and share ideas with their UK counterparts.

What we deliver

Our courses are bespoke, run from 2 to 24 weeks and offer the highest degree of flexibility. A typical week would involve 24 hours of classes over 4 or 5 days and one educational visit per week. We provide a full social programme and can arrange trips and longer expeditions to any of Britain's key sites, including London, Edinburgh, Bath and Stonehenge.

Participants on our courses have full access to the university's facilities and student accommodation right in the heart of the city of Cambridge, and a full range of free-time activities.

Module Clusters

The following are usually delivered as 6 hours of class time with additional hours of practical activities fine-tuned to the requirements of the participants. Any 2 modules can be extended to form a full course of one week (26 hours plus 25 hours practical activity).

Practical activities may involve case studies, observations, group or individual projects, background reading, additional online materials or teaching practice.

Education Management & Training

Make better managers

These courses provide training for academic managers aiming to apply international standards to the management of their institution.

• Benchmarking in education
• Quality Management in higher education
• Change Management in university departments
• Course design
• Creating Assessment frameworks
• Monitoring learning
• Student-lecturer communication
• Effective tutorials
• E-learning assessment
• Fostering student autonomy
• Managing plagiarism
• Faculties, Communities and Cultures - making effective institutions

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Micro Skills

Make better teachers

These courses provide immediately effective tools and strategies for the teacher and tutor to improve his or her teaching style.

• Effective lectures
• Managing tutorials
• Seminar skills
• Feedback and tutorial skills
• Assessing student presentation

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Academic Language Skills

Improve the Academic literacy and language skills of your academics

These courses enable tutors and teachers to teach and research in English language.

• English for Academic Purposes; writing reading speaking and listening
• Research tasks
• Pronunciation
• Effective communication strategies for Higher Education teaching and learning
• Pre-PhD programmes to help staff prepare for research and PhD culture in an English speaking world

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Learning Theory and Knowledge

Makes learning more effective

These courses provide upskilling for teachers, enabling them to introduce current learning theories into their methodology and making the learning environment more efficient and more effective.

• Teaching Critical Thinking
• Working with Bloom's Taxonomy and Beyond
• E-learning
• Collaborative and Community Learning
• Neurolinguistics and what it can tell us
• Talking to teenagers
• Assessment & Correction
• Materials design and development
• English for Academic Purposes

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Enhancing Teacher Knowledge & Methodology

Develop the range and experience of teaching through new skills

These short courses offer teachers of English as a foreign language an opportunity to widen their range and upgrade their skills.

• Modern English
• English as a world language
• Writing skills
• Content based lessons
• Teaching for exams
• Teaching in English
• Teaching and Using Drama & Literature in EFL
• Teaching Shakespeare
• Teaching Science through English

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Training for Professional Awards

Qualify teaches using internationally recognized standards

These courses lead to qualifications provided by the internationally recognized world leaders, Cambridge English. Any of these 3 tests provide the international benchmark of language teaching quality:

• Teaching Knowledge Test
• Online CELTA
• IELTS

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