Education
Survival Level Italian.
Italian can be studied at all levels in many different styles.The Support Unit provides, Italian Survival Training, 20 sessions over 10 weeks. These are available for all Service Personnel and their spouses, who are posted to Naples for more than six months. The course fees must be met by students, this is approx €80 per person
Further Italian Language Training.
Personnel and spouses, whose posts do not appear on the SOTR, may arrange subsequent group language training which may also be subsidised by the UKJSU,subject to budgetary approval. A personal contribution of at least €40 per person, per academic term, will be required, value for money must be demonstrated and personnel must have completed either Survival Language Training or have an appropriate Italian language qualification in order to be eligible for Further Language Training.
Language courses leading to a nationally recognised qualification will not be subsidised.
If personnel wish to obtain additional language training that leads to a nationally recognised qualification, such as GCSE or AS level, then Service personnel can fund this through the Standard Learning Credit (SLC) scheme; however, civilians and dependants must pay their own costs in their entirety.
GCSE/GCE Italian can be arranged are on a private bases, either in groups or on a one to one bases. Private tuition can be arranged with our resident Italian (or other approved language teacher) and then claimed back (for Service personnel) through SLCs. External language centres can also be recommended e.g. Centro Italiano in the centre of Naples.