What Next with Languages? is a new platform designed to help modern languages students and graduates who chose to study languages out of passion and then found themselves asking: what next?
 
This is a question the platform’s creator, Mary, continues to explore six years after completing her degree in French, Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Exeter. Since graduating, she has enjoyed a varied career, spending two years on the Civil Service Fast Stream, completing a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) and teaching French and Spanish for three years in a London secondary school. Having recently stepped back from full-time teaching, she is once again considering the exciting question: what next? While many people say a languages degree opens countless doors, she is curious about what those doors actually look like and suspects she isn’t the only one.

This platform was born from the idea that hearing directly from modern languages graduates could be a powerful way to inform, inspire and reassure others who are asking themselves this question.​ The catalogue of graduate profiles offers honest insights into different roles, highlights the transferable skills that language learning develops and shows the wide variety of paths that are possible.​