British Council PROSPER

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British Council PROSPER Language Centres
Project
English for Education and European Integration
Ministry of Education English Speaking Union
International Conference

• Ovidiu Ursa, QUEST Romania

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• English - key to political and economic
  development as well as to future integration into
  the international community and the European
  Union
• British Council (BC) programmes have assisted
  this process - examples of good practice

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Project for Specific Purposes English in Romania
(PROSPER)

• set up in 1991 Impact Study 1999
• Aim improving the teaching and learning of
  English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in major
  Romanian universities
• started with six major higher education
  institutions and expanded to eighteen
  institutions

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Main activities

• post-graduate qualification courses and training
  through ELT/ESP in-country methodology programmes
  at British universities (the University of
  Lancaster, the University of Manchester) - 124
  teachers
• ESP resource centres in key institutions
• networking among ESP professionals in Romania and
  with their counterparts in other countries

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Main outcomes impact

• textbooks (English for Science and Technology,
  English for Business and Administration, English
  for Medicine and Pharmacy and English for Legal
  Purposes)
• international conferences
• Language Centres Project
• awareness of ESP profession

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Language Centres Project(1994 1996)

• five regional language centres PROSPER-ASE
  Language Centre (Bucharest) www.prosper.ro
  International Language Centre/EuroEd (Iasi)
  www.euroed.ro PROSPER Transilvania (Brasov),
  CLASS Language Centre (Constanta) and ACCESS
  Language Centre (Cluj) www.access.ro
• ELT / educational management training
• Addressing need for continuing education
  opportunities

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QUEST - The Romanian Association for Quality
Language Services

• Founded in 1996
• Aims develop and implement quality assurance and
  quality control systems
• February 1998 Associate Member of EAQUALS - The
  European Association for Quality Language
  Services
• diversifying its portfolio (European projects,
  training consultancy)