Language College

Language Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the specialist schools programme (SSP) in the United Kingdom.

The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, modern foreign languages.

[1] The specialist schools programme was discontinued by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in April 2011.

[4] The project began in 2001 when French Minister of Education, Jack Lang, met with the SST.

[5] Specialist Science Colleges were invited to join the project in 2006 and by 2007 all other SSP schools could take part.