Professor Brian Norton:

It is an outsourcing of level 5 work. DIT, under the national qualifications framework, offers qualifications from level 6 to level 10. Here there is level 5 work in English language tuition, which involves students gaining competence in the English language to be able to pursue another course, whereas our language provision in our school is at levels 6 and 7. These are advanced levels in the language. It is not core to what we do, not in the sense the Deputy described.