Quality certified French as a foreign language (FFL):

The State undertakes, beginning this year, a program of quality control applicable to all centers teaching French as a foreign language in France.
More than 100,000 people come each year to France to enroll in French language classes. Nearly 300 centers of all different sorts – public, private, associative – offer their services. The need for a well-reasoned catalogue, constructed from standard criteria meant to facilitate one’s choice, was therefore deemed to be necessary for individual beneficiaries of the educational system as well as French diplomatic bodies that deal with the foreign public.

That is why the Ministries of National Education, Higher Education and Research, (Directorate of Higher education), Foreign Affairs (Directorate general of international cooperation and development) and of Culture and Communication (General delegation for the French language and languages of France) have decided to grant the CIEP the responsibility of creating a system for the labeling and certification of French as a foreign language (FFL) centers located within the confines of the French territory. This initiative will make it possible to identify, recognize and promote the different educative institutions which consistently present language instruction and services of the guaranteed high quality that is to be expected.

Beginning in 2007, all the centers in France teaching French to foreigners and satisfying a list of objective criteria will be able to receive the label of “Quality FFL”