Over the past three months, the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been surveying UK businesses in different industry sectors on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. In this overview, we compare some of the key findings from the…
The third ATC Coronavirus Pulse Survey continues to chart the pandemic’s effect on the UK’s language service companies, but also looks ahead to the degree of positivity businesses have for the rest of 2020, as lockdown measures are lifted across…
The ATC’s newly launched Collaborative MA Project Partnership Programme is a ground-breaking collaboration programme established with key university partners. The programme expands on the ATC’s existing engagement with the academic community, initiating and supporting Master’s Dissertation projects that address questions…
The UK’s national registers, NPRSI for public service interpreters, NRPST for public service translators, and NRCPD for communications professionals working with d/Deaf and deafblind people, allow you to access thousands of qualified, experienced and vetted interpreters, translators and communication professionals…
Two months into lockdown, the ATC’s Coronavirus Pulse Survey asks the UK’s language service companies how the pandemic has affected their business, and what financial support measures offered by the UK Government they have accessed. See the results…
In all fairness, do you really want to read anything else about pandemics, the global inability to respond, and that this particular tunnel has yet to reveal the light at its end? Chasing the pot of gold at the end…
The ATC’s first Coronavirus Pulse Survey asked the UK’s language service companies how the pandemic has affected their business, and what financial support measures offered by the UK Government they have accessed. Below, we share the initial results; the reality…
The ATC has launched a new monthly Coronavirus Pulse Survey to track the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on UK language service companies, and to gauge the financial support measures accessed by them. The survey will provide continuous, valuable information…
Bristol-based translation agency, EMPOWER, has launched a rapid-response translation service to ease time-pressures for clients carrying out Covid-19-related projects. The service covers all markets globally and certain language services, such as translation and audiovisual transcription/translation. Working in partnership with a…
It is an uncertain, unprecedented time for the UK’s language services industry, and the Association of Translation Companies (ATC) welcomes the measures announced by the UK Government to support small and medium-sized businesses. However, more needs to be done to…