 Asset Languages and Business
Employees with modern languages skills are an asset to any organisation and Asset Languages qualifications can be particularly beneficial in a number of ways.
Asset Languages qualifications, and the Can Do statements they are based on, give practical evaluations of language capabilities that are easy to compare.
The flexibility of the scheme means Asset Languages qualifications are ideal for schools and colleges to run alongside vocational awards in management, leisure and tourism or customer services for example.
The broad range of languages on offer means that employees with English as an additional language can have their valuable community language skills recognised and rewarded.
The assessment of individual skills allows learners to concentrate on speaking and listening skills in a customer communications role or maybe reading and writing for administrative jobs.
The DCSF National Languages Strategy and the National Recognition Scheme for Languages (of which Asset Languages forms the assessment part) is aimed at encouraging England to wake up to modern languages - for communities, for arts and culture and for business.
A number of Blue chip companies are using Asset Languages to recognise the language skills of their employees. |