France Éducation international (FEI) is a government body supervised by the Ministry of Education and is responsable for the French Government quality label and accreditation scheme for institutions teaching French as Foreign Language.
The website is managed by the French language department of FEI.
For further details about FEI: www.france-education-international.fr/en
Professional groups have committed to a quality-driven approach out of a concern for offering services of an excellent standard. They contribute their expertise in the field and have been consulted from the early stages in the creation of the Qualité français langue étrangère certification. The president of each group is member of the certification's Advisory Council and actively participates in working groups.
The Répertoire annuel des centres de formation en France (Annual Directory of Training Centres in France) is published for the first time by the Association pour la diffusion de la pensée française (Association for the Dissemination of French Thought, ADPF) under the aegis of the Department of Cultural Cooperation and French of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. This represents an initial attempt to produce a list of French as a foreign language centres in France.
The scope of the certification covers French language training, with the exception of teacher and trainer training courses, and a range of peripheral services surrounding the provision of French as foreign language classes, such as hosting facilities, premises, equipment and management.
The certification is awarded in accordance with a framework based on the following five aspects:
The decree that created the Qualité français langue étrangère certification was published in the Official Journal on 28 December 2007.
The following are the main stages that led to its creation and the changes it has since undergone.
Who assesses the candidate centre?
The centre is assessed by two auditors recruited based on a series of criteria and trained to auditing by the CIEP.
How do the auditors work?
All of the tools required for certification were developed by a scientific committee under the guidance of Claude Le Ninan, a senior lecturer at the Centre of Applied Linguistics (CLA) at the University of Franche Comté, in 2005-2006.
The CIEP is committed to the following:
As a public administrative body, the CIEP has been entrusted by the State with the task of operating the Qualité français langue étrangère certification. As such, it is responsible for the following: