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Our Mission, Vision and Values
The UCC Language Centre mission is to help you reach your learning, teaching and communication goals in English.
We offer expertise in
- Language learning
- General, academic and specialist English
- University preparation course design
- Teacher training and professional development
- Summer school courses
- Custom-made courses for organisations and corporate clients
- Communication across cultures
Our vision is to be a leading language centre. Based in Ireland, but reaching out across the world, we will be recognised for our excellence and innovation in how English is taught, used and learned.
Our promise to you is that we will….
- Provide top quality teaching in a stimulating university environment
- Advise, support and inspire you to learn and to reach your goals
- Offer programmes and qualifications which are accredited and useful
- Give you value for money and your time
- Offer a welcoming, inclusive and multi-cultural learning space
- Help you continue your learning outside the classroom and settle into life at UCC and in Cork
- Learn from you
Our values are those of our parent organisation, University College Cork: Creativity, respect, freedom of expression, transparency, scholarship, equality, diversity, integrity, responsiveness.