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IATQuO is the
only organisation dedicated exclusively to providing external accreditation
/ validation and quality assurance services to:
- ensure international
standards,
- reassure Trainee Teachers
that they will receive a quality preparation for a career in Teaching
English to Speakers of Other Languages.
- promote the highest
standards in an increasingly important international educational sector
- protect intending
teachers from the many sub-standard programs on offer.
How?
- they respond to requests
for accreditation/validation from training centres
- they agree course
objectives, content and method of delivery with each centre
- they work alongside each
centre and do not impose a particular approach
- they maintain regular
contact and carry out regular monitoring through visits by specialist
consultants.
Why
should you trust IATQuO?
- they employ only
consultants with years of experience and expertise in the field
- they are based in Bristol,
South West England, and liaise frequently with the local universities
- you can contact them by
email or telephone if you have a query about a course
- they respond to requests from
(potential) employers for assurances re IATQuO accreditation
For fuller
information about IATQuO and accredited centres visit www.iatquo.org
Who
is the IATQuO Director?
Dr Alan Dallas Moller
A British
applied linguist specialized in language testing, Alan D Moller, Ph.D and
Dip App Ling (Edinburgh), MA (Cantab), PGCE (London).
Dr Alan Moller,
a retired British Council Officer, has been Director of the English
Language Services Department of the British Council incorporating, among
other tasks, inspecting and advising language schools worldwide. He wrote
many of the BC Tests for English as a Foreign Language (mini platform
tests) still in use nowadays. He was actively involved with the
introduction of the ELTS (now IELTS) in 1989.
Alan was posted
in Africa, Singapore, and Malaysia and was Cultural Attaché at the New Delhi British
High Commission in charge of organising the Henry Moore Exhibition.
After retiring
from the British Council, Alan has been full time Chief Examiner for
Trinity College London. Duties included academic responsibility for the
Certificate in TESOL, for the Diploma in TESOL, and for the suite of Spoken
English tests. On his departure from TCL in 1999, these responsibilities
were assigned to three different professionals.
In 2003, he was
appointed Chair of Examiners for the London Tests of English by the main
British Examinations Board, EDEXCEL (London).
His Ph.D "A
study in the validation of proficiency tests of English as a Foreign
Language" (Edinburgh 1981)
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