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GCHQ National Language Competition November 2025
Calling all UK secondary schools!
CIOL is pleased to help GCHQ spread the word about their online National Language Competition in November this year for Year 9 (England and Wales) / S2 (Scotland) / Year 10 (N Ireland) pupils across the country. (Teachers in Scotland: please note the change from S3...
We continue to receive reports from members who have been contacted by various email addresses with spam and scam content. Thank you to those members for bringing these incidents to our attention. We wanted to share them in case of help or use to other members.
Recent Spam and Scam emails for Info Examples of emails received by MembersFrom: Patrick Rose...
We have received further reports from several members, who have been contacted by various email addresses claiming to offer "member lists" or "registrant data" from CIOL's Find a Linguist Directory, and now "Registrants/Attendees list from CIOL Conference Season 2025" for sale.
Thank you to those members for bringing this incident to our attention. We...
The winning collective noun for linguists - a Glot of Linguists - from the Chartered Institute of Linguists contest to find a term to describe language professionals, was first announced at the CIOL Conference and is confirmed in the summer issue of The Linguist.
From a shortlist of ten, CIOL’s Awards & Recognition Committee, Council and Educational...
The Government has responded to the House of Lords Public Services Committee's report “Lost in Translation? Interpreting services in the Courts”.
You can view the Government’s response on the House of Lords website or via the CIOL website here.
Details of the Committee’s full inquiry are on their web pages.
The House of Lords Public Servies...
NHS England has published an improvement framework for community language translation and interpreting services.
As part of the framework the NHS notes:
Cymdeithas Cyfieithwyr Cymru (the association of Welsh language translators and interpreters) are researching the Welsh><English translation and interpretation profession.
The work is being carried out by professional research company Arad. They have prepared a short questionnaire – it takes around 10 minutes to complete. If you do any Welsh><English...
We are pleased to announce that GCHQ has been awarded the prestigious CIOL Threlford Cup in the 2025 CIOL Awards. GCHQ is the UK's intelligence, security and cyber agency. This is in recognition of the extensive work GCHQ do in championing languages and linguists in UK Government and nationally.
GCHQ, alongside their vital work in helping to keep the country...