This independent committee was supported by NIACE and chaired by Derek Grover CB. The membership was designed to provide a good cross section of people involved in ESOL in terms of roles, organisations and geography.
The committee considered the major challenges facing ESOL, focussing on 5 areas:
- Definition, purpose and need for ESOL
- Leadership and management
- Quality of teaching, learning and support
- Teacher training
- Funding.
To provide realistic and helpful recommendations to policy makers, funders, inspectorates, providers and practitioners for the future good of ESOL provision in England.
We used the term ESOL to include all provision for speakers of other languages. This covered all settings where teaching and learning took place, and encompassed language support to enable learners to access other subjects as well as designated language learning provision.
Outcomes:
Reports
'More than a language...' - The Final Report (available from the online book shop priced £12.50)
'More than a language...' - Executive Summary of the Final Report [PDF]
'More than a language...' - Interim Report [PDF]
Documents
DfES Response to the NIACE report on ESOL [PDF]
Alan Tuckett's letter of response to Bill Rammell MP [PDF]
Derek Grover's letter of response to Bill Rammell MP [PDF]
Podcast
ESOL Inquiry Podcast - [MP3 file 2MB]
(If the podcast does not start playing in you browser, right click and save it onto your computer and then play it back through your usual media player) 4 Oct 06
