CLiE has made the following responses to government consultations or to other educational developments:

• 2024-5: CLiE’s submission to the official Curriculum and Assessment Review.
  • Submissions from 19 language-oriented organisations.
  • Digest of all these submissions
  • Final report of the CAR team 
  • Other responses by the Coalition for Language Education
• 2024: CLiE’s comments on the GCSE in English Language, suggesting that it needs more linguistic content.
• 2021: CLiE’s comments on the ‘KAL gaps’ – the gaps between what primary teachers are expected to know about language and what they typically actually do know.
  • A related paper by Willem Hollmann, mentioning CLiE, published in The Conversation.
• 2021: CLiE’s comments on GCSE MFL, responding to the consultation about a proposed revision of the GCSE examination for MFL.
• 2020: A letter from CLiE to the Minister of State for Universities about the effect of Brexit on recruitment of MFL teachers.
  • The Minister’s reply
• 2019: A brief position paper on the primary ‘SPaG’ tests of Spelling, punctuation and grammar.
  • Reposted on Teachertoolkit.
• 2017: response in the Guardian to an opinion piece by Simon Jenkins arguing that school languages are a waste of time.
  • Printed version of our letter
• 2016: Invited response to a consultation on FL pedagogy which led to the Bauckham report (which CLiE endorses)
  • an online teacher survey on pedagogy
• 2011: Response to the consultation on the National Curriculum:
  • comments on the entire curriculum.
  • comments on English.
• 2011: comments on the proposed Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.
  • see also the UKLA response
• 2009: Comments on the Rose Review of the Primary Curriculum.
• 2007: Comments on the draft document on Functional skills.
• 2004: Comments to the Tomlinson Committee on 14-19 SK0-003 reform.
• 1993: Comments on the draft revised National Curriculum for English.