In this paper, we explore how language centres can and need to seize the initiative in matters of internationalisation, language policy and supporting a multilingual and multicultural institutional environment. We identify and explore a number of challenges and opportunities, using the situation in the United Kingdom as our example, demonstrating how language centres can evidence their existing contribution to a wider interpretation of internationalisation than is often found within university international strategies. In that context, we explore the skillset of the ‘global graduate’ to which language centres can contribute extensively. We demonstrate how language centres can contribute to the achievement of research excellence in an international higher education environment and the dimensions of institutional language policies within the context of a global university. Finally, we share the AULC manifesto for the role of language centres within global universities and propose that CercleS might elaborate a similar manifesto to raise the profile of language centres at the heart of higher education internationalisation.

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大学国际化战略和语言政策的演变：语言中心的挑战和机遇

在本文中，我们探讨了语言中心如何能够并且需要在国际化、语言政策和支持多语言和多文化制度环境方面取得主动。我们确定并探索了许多挑战和机遇，以英国的情况为例，展示了语言中心如何证明它们对国际化的更广泛解释的现有贡献，而不是在大学国际战略中经常发现的。在这种情况下，我们探索语言中心可以广泛贡献的“全球毕业生”的技能组合。我们展示了语言中心如何在国际高等教育环境中为实现卓越研究做出贡献，以及在全球大学的背景下机构语言政策的维度。最后，我们分享了 AULC 关于语言中心在全球大学中的作用的宣言，并建议 CercleS 可以制定一个类似的宣言，以提高作为高等教育国际化核心的语言中心的形象。