All centres, be they members of a professional group or independent, and regardless of their status (public, private or association-based), can voluntarily sign up to the Qualité français langue étrangère certification process.
They use the Qualité français langue étrangère certification to validate and promote the quality of their service offering.
Their missions
The Interministerial Certification Committee is responsible for the following:
The Interministerial Committee meets as and when needed and at least once a year.
Its composition
The Advisory Council supports the certification procedure, suggesting any modifications of tools, procedures and processes that might be deemed appropriate to the Interministerial Committee. The council meets as and when needed and at least once a year.
Its composition
Chaired by the Delegate General to the French Language and Languages of France, at the Ministry for Culture, the Advisory Council comprises the following:
FEI is a national public administrative body that reports to the Ministry for National Education. It was appointed by the State in 2004 as the operator of the certification scheme for French as a foreign language centres.
As stated in its mission statement, FEI is responsible for the following:
Obtaining certification gives a centre a new form of visibility.
Once a centre has obtained certification, the CIEP sends an email to the town or city hall of the town or city in which the certified centre is located, as well as to regional and departmental councillors in France, tourist offices and local education authorities.
This page provides access to the various communication materials pertaining to the certification. Translations are available for the purposes of targeting international education officers and clients.
The certification brochure, which is aimed at professionals, education officers and centre directors, is available in both French and English. It is distributed at trade shows and printed as and when needed at the CIEP.
The FEI monitoring unit is responsible for selecting and circulating international cooperation projects relating to the field of education with regards to multilateral, community and bilateral financial institutions.
150 online sources are monitored and scrutinised on a daily basis, including both international (European Commission, World Bank, regional development banks, etc.) and national sources. We select those markets likely to be of interest to certified centres on a daily basis and then inform the latter by means of a distribution list.
Once a year the CIEP holds a seminar on quality assurance in the teaching of French as a foreign language, with the support of the Delegate General to the French Language and Languages of France (DGLFLF).
The FEI offers support to French as a foreign language teaching centres looking to develop a reliable and rigorous quality-driven approach in compiling their applications for Qualité français langue étrangère certification.
You can get in touch with us as soon as you start thinking about applying to check that your application is admissible and that you clearly understand the 96 indicators of the certification framework, how to compile your application and finally how the audit will be structured.
