Our Accreditations

CPF

You can use your CPF to finance your language courses with PDS Formation (if you are based in the Portes du Soleil area) or with Alpine French School’s parent company Gallico elsewhere in France.

Région Auvergne Rhône-Alpes

Alpine French School is located in the beautiful region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

TOEIC

Alpine French School via its parent company Gallico is very proud to be named as a test centre for TOEIC English tests. Take a TOEIC test to receive a certificate of your level in either English. This also means that you can use your CPF training budget with Alpine French School.

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CLOE Partenaire

Alpine French School’s parent company Gallico (and PDS Formation for courses in the Portes du Soleil) are very proud to be named as test centres for the CLOE certification. Take a CLOE test to receive a certificate of your level in French, English, Spanish, German or Italian. This also means that you can use your CPF training budget.

Datadock

In France, everyone is entitled to professional training and this is usually financed by a French training budget organisation who are funded by the contributions that companies pay to provide training for their employees.  These training budget organisations work with language schools in order to finance training courses.  Datadock was created in 2017 to audit training centres including language schools to ensure the training offered is of high quality. PDS Formation (Portes du Soleil region) and Alpine French School’s parent company Gallico (for courses elsewhere in France) are approved by Datadock for professional language training

Qualiopi

Qualiopi is a quality certification for Training Centres in France. This certification guarantees the high quality of our training courses and our customer service. The certification covers everything about the courses we offer from A to Z, from the first information you read about us until the end of your course with us. This also means that you can finance your training course with us using a training budget such as your CPF, your training budget as a company director, your Plan de Formation if you are employed, or you can access training via France Travail if you are unemployed. PDS Formation offers courses using government training budgets in the Portes du Soleil region and our parent company, Gallico, offers courses using government training budgets elsewhere in France.

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Tour Operator: Atout France

Alpine French School (a Gallico company) is a registered French Tour Operator (registration number IM074240015).

LanguageCourse.net

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