Specialist Language Courses

ESOL courses for Employability

Refugee and migrants
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Getting work can make a life-changing difference to refugees and migrants.

Employment offers more than just financial stability—it can provide dignity, purpose, and a sense of belonging. A job helps refugees and migrants rebuild their lives and integrate into new communities. It boosts confidence and provides opportunities to improve English and learn new skills.

For many, work brings routine, social connection, and hope for a better future. It enables individuals to support their families, both in the UK and abroad, and for many, to move forward from the trauma and disruption they’ve experienced.

SLC courses are designed to give refugees and migrants both the language skills and the confidence to get a job that matches their skills, experience and ambition.

How we design courses

We start with the learners. We carry out needs analysis and level assessment, so we understand where learners are currently at and where they want to go. This allows us to map the journey they need to go on and design a curriculum that meets their needs.

Once the course starts, there is inbuilt flexibility to meet new needs as they emerge and to evolve the course to meet specific objectives.

Pre-Entry (A0) to Entry Level 2 (A2) courses

For lower-level learners, courses will need focus on core language – communication, vocabulary, grammar, function, skills – sometimes starting with the very basics. This allows learners to build a foundation in English from which they can develop more employability-specific language skills.

Entry Level 3 (B1) to Level 2 (B2) courses

For higher-level learners at Entry Level 3 and above, courses target specific areas of need. These may range from job applications to interview preparation to CV building to digital skills, such as working with software suites and using LinkedIn. Courses may also focus on developing workplace communication skills, navigating fast speech, idioms and accents.

Why online classrooms?

SLC courses take place online. There are very good reasons for this:

  1. Access to specialist teachers – research shows that teaching quality is the single most important in-school factor influencing learner outcomes.
  2. Convenience – online classes resolve issues of poor public transport, childcare commitments, and health or other issues that keep learners at home.
  3. Flexibility – learn from any location on schedules that match learner availability. Courses work on all devices.
  4. Safe environment – learning from a familiar or private space reduces anxiety.
  5. Build digital skills – participating in online classes helps learners build confidence in using digital tools, skills they can then transfer to life outside the classroom.
  6. Immersive, engaging learning – multimedia content, interactive tasks, no hiding in the back row.
  7. Proven success – consistently excellent feedback from hundreds of learners and repeat contracts from refugee support organisations such as Strategic Migration Partnerships, across the UK.

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Outstanding value

Courses are designed to meet the many budgetary constraints refugee support organisation face. If the value wasn’t there, there’s no way we would have delivered so many courses to our clients across the UK since 2018.

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Please get in touch to discuss how we can support your learners. We would love to hear from you.

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