NATIONAL DEFENCE LANGUAGE TESTING CENTER Col. (AF) PIRNOIU Florian Chief of NDLTC NDLTC HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT October 6 th, 2008

AGENDA  History  Mission  Chain of command  Types of testing sessions  Achievements  Priorities  Way ahead HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENTNDLTC

HISTORY  NDLTC was established on March 2008  Chief appointed on June 2008  Background – a RoTS since 2002 empowered by Ministerial Directive to establish policy and procedures used for all proficiency and achievement tests also able to manage and administer all proficiency tests HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENTNDLTC

MISSION To evaluate MoD personnel according to STANAG 6001 in order to support a wide range of operations HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENTNDLTC

NATIONAL DEFENCE LANGUAGE TESTING SYSTEM NATIONAL DEFENCE LANGUAGE TESTING CENTER MINISTER OF DEFENCE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT DIRECTORATE MAIN FOREIGN LANG. CENTER LFA - Sibiu MAIN FOREIGN LANG. CENTER AFA - BRASOV MAIN FOREIGN LANG. CENTER NA - CONSTANTA LEGEND NDU – NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERSITY LFA – LAND FORCES ACADEMY AFA – AIR FORCE ACADEMY NA – NAVY ACADEMY NDU FOREIGN LANG. DEPT BUCHAREST HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENTNDLTC

TYPES OF TESTING SESSIONS  Bi-level STANAG 6001 tests of English  3 testing sessions per year  Placement tests admin whenever necessary  High rank officers  Staff officers  Deployable troops  Military schools  Civilians working within Defence system  Others on order HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENTNDLTC

ACHIEVEMENTS  10,886 persons have been tested since 2002 up to 1 st semester – English – other languages  18,000 individual requests for testing have been processed HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT NDLTC

TESTING PRIORITIES  Force Goal G 0356 “Language Proficiency of the Deployable Force”  Personnel to fill positions in NATO HQs  Participants to courses abroad  Career accession  Final year military institutions students HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT NDLTC

WAY AHEAD  Work with Regional teams to develop and validate new levels 1, 2, 3 English and French proficiency tests  Co-ordinate Working Group, trial & validate performance tests IAW Common European Framework for Languages in English, French, German, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Arab, etc.  Establish testing priorities for strategic languages  Enlarge NDLTC and expand its mission HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENTNDLTC