What's coming up at NILE?
There’s plenty happening at NILE over the coming months. Take a look at what’s ahead and start planning your next step in professional development.
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Summer courses
Join a 2-week face-to-face professional development course for teachers and ELT professionals in Norwich, UK, over July and August.
Courses on offer this summer include:
- Advanced Language and Methodology
- Teaching Teenagers
- Teaching Young Learners
- Global Citizenship in Language Education
- Language Improvement for Teachers
- Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
- Learning Differences and Inclusion in Language Education
- Video, Image and Story in Language Education
- Trainer Development: a course for Teacher Educators
- Testing, Evaluation and Assessment
- Management in Language Education
- Materials Development for Language Education
- Creativity in Language Education
- British Culture and Contemporary English
One-week options available.
Transform your face-to-face course into an award with the Trinity Cert PT extension.
Did you know Norwich was recently voted the UK’s Best Place to Live by the Sunday Times?
Come along and see what all the fuss is about!
Contact us
Teachers
Language teachers seeking to develop professionally to support their students in unlocking their potential.
Institutions
Educational institutions in need of a bespoke programme to develop a particular area of ELT.
Organisations
Public or private organisations requiring consultancy or project management to plan, execute or evaluate ELT strategy and programmes.
Popular Courses
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
Develop the essential skills for CLIL teachers and explore materials and methodologies appropriate to CLIL. Raise your language awareness and linguistic competences while looking at key issues in course design and testing and assessment procedures in CLIL contexts.
Location: Norwich
Course dates: July 2026
Creativity in Language Education
NEW COURSE: Discover creative approaches to language teaching through art, drama, literature, music and storytelling, alongside creative tweaks to traditional materials and activities. Develop language skills collaboratively, inside and outside the classroom, and create your own resources to engage and motivate learners.
Location: Norwich
Course dates: August 2026
e-Moderation
This course looks at the range of skills needed by an online teacher, particularly in the field of English Language Teaching, although these skills are easily transferable to other disciplines. Learn how to teach both individual students and groups of online learners in a principled and effective manner.
Location: Online
Course dates: For Groups - please contact us
Free English Classes
Join our free English classes, delivered by trainee teachers and supervised by experienced language teachers. Classes are usually for two hours a day from two to ten weeks.
Location: Online and in Norwich
Course dates: January - December
Learning Differences and Inclusion in Language Education
Identify support needs for students with learning differences in language learning and explore a range of neurodiversity types and some of the practical strategies you can put in place to make your teaching more accessible to all.
Location: Online
Course dates: January- March, April - June, September - November
MA Module: Management in Language Education
Gain insights into key components, skills and competencies of effective management in language education, and develop principled approaches for all aspects of educational management in this 30-credit elective module on the NILE MAPDLE programme.
Location: Online
Course dates: January - March, April - June, September - November
NILE: British Council, Colombia
Join NILE and British Council Colombia for CPD courses in Bogotá!
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Course dates: Ongoing
Teacher Development Courses in Malta
Join us for a co-delivered teacher development programme at our partner institution ESE in Malta.
Erasmus+ funding welcome!
Location: Malta
Course dates: March, April, June, July, August, October, November
The Trinity Certificate for Practising Teachers with NILE
The Trinity Certificate for Practising Teachers (CertPT) is an in-service vocational teaching qualification at Level 6 on Ofqual’s Regulated Qualifications Framework. The qualification is defined around outcomes directly linked to pedagogy and requires the completion of four practical materials/teaching assignments which demonstrate your use and understanding of teaching/training resources in your professional context.
Location: Distance Supervision
Course dates: Year-round, post online and face-to-face courses
