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Welcome to the AULC Website

AULC has more than 80 institutional members, including over 70 HEIs from the UK, 7 from the Republic of Ireland and 3 other organisations (see our list of members)
If you are interested in joining, please contact the Secretary or any of the other Executive Committee members for information.

To renew your subscription, please download EITHER the 2012 AULC invoice OR the 2012 AULC+Cercles invoice and the 2012 contact form.

CercleS Conference 2012:

"Going for Gold – Overcoming Hurdles"

The 2012 CercleS conference will be held at the LSE on Thursday, Friday and Saturday September 6th, 7th and 8th. Details can be found at the LSE conference website.

Please note that

  • this is the first time that CercleS has held its biennial conference in the UK
  • most AULC members are members of CercleS and therefore get a discount if they register by the end of May
  • this is the second most interesting event in London in the summer of 2012

AULC Conference 2013

The 2013 conference will be held at the University of Durham on Thursday and Friday January 10th and 11th. Details will be added to this site as they become available.

AULC Conference 2012

The 2012 conference was hosted at the University of Reading on Thursday and Friday 5th and 6th January. It was a great success, with more participants (over 80) than we have seen for a while. See details of the programme and presentations.

See 'Minutes and reports' for details of all previous AGMs/Conferences since 1999

'Shaping the Future of Languages in HE'

AULC is a partner in the national 'Shaping the Future of languages project, launched in June 2011. The project website provides resources to assist language centres and academic departments to promote the work they do, under three headings: shared identity, internationalisation and employability.

'Speak to the Future' campaign

AULC is a participant in the national 'Speak to the Future campaign', launched on February 15th 2011. In particular, we support Objective 4: "Every graduate qualified in a second language
This will prepare future leaders in business, the professions, voluntary organisations, education and research to thrive and communicate confidently in complex global societies "
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As part of this campaign several AULC members celebrated the Festival of Languages on or around March 8th (Mardi Gras) in 2011. Read reports of these events. Events were again held on February 21st 2012. In 2013 Mardi Gras will be on February 12th, when we hope more celebrations will take place.