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Accreditation for Language Education Providers
An evidence-based inspection of the accountable legal entity and the language-education sites, languages, learner groups and delivery modes expressly included in the application and public record.
Language-sector recognition
Two routes. Two precise public meanings.
Certiqual operates two quality-recognition routes in the language sector: accreditation of a defined language-education provider and the Certi Mark for a named language examination or an examination body.
Route selection
Choose by the subject that must withstand scrutiny.
The two routes may examine related organisations, but they answer different public questions and require different evidence.
Choose provider accreditation when the subject is the education organisation.
The assessment asks whether the named legal entity operates a coherent, controlled and effective system for language education across the sites, languages, learner groups and delivery modes in scope.
- Evidence of governance, academic management and accountability
- Curriculum, teaching, learner assessment and staff practice
- Operational records and outcomes across the requested scope
Choose a Certi Mark when the subject is language testing.
The assessment asks whether a named examination has an adequate technical evidence chain, or whether an examination body has the governance, competence and controls to manage the portfolio expressly included in scope.
- Purpose, construct, specifications and development controls
- Administration, security, scoring, rating and results controls
- Validation, fairness, monitoring and responsible score use
Other needs follow other routes
Individual competence is addressed through Certiqual professional qualifications and CPD. Institutional participation is addressed through Membership. Advisory may support understanding and preparation, but none of these is a recognition decision.
A critical distinction
Membership is not accreditation.
Membership records participation in the Certiqual institutional network. It does not mean that the member’s language-education provision, examination body or examinations have passed a Certiqual assessment.
- Separate public category
- Visually distinct member mark
- No implied quality decision