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Higher Education programme announces a second call for bids

The Routes into Languages Programme is inviting bids from English HEIs to lead regional consortia following the allocation of further funding from the DfES in response to recommendations in the Dearing review of languages.

The 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.

Proposals are invited 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 are as defined by Government Offices

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.

Find out more about the Call for Bids, FAQs, and sample successful bid papers