The Association of Translation Companies (ATC) and the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. ITI’s Chief Executive Paul Wilson says, “Both the ITI and the ATC are professional membership organisations; The ITI’s 3,000 members…
The Association of Translation Companies (ATC) is calling on the UK Government to safeguard British industry’s and the UK public sector’s access to the linguistic skills of translators and interpreters, and to ensure that the route to these skilled roles…
In this week of nail-biting ‘meaningful votes’ in Brexit Britain, let’s take a break and talk about something else, namely topical, meaningful research, and the relationship between research and practice in the translation industry. I’ve often thought about translation studies…
Note from Corinne Smith: Around 60% of ATC members are small businesses, and in 2019 much of ATC’s focus will be on supporting and producing content tailored for SME LSPs through our new Small Business Initiative. The Small Business Initiative…
ATC’s Council will decamp to Leeds on 26 February 2019, hosted by thebigword at their brand new training centre. You are cordially invited to join us there to find out the latest on safeguarding your existing EU staff through Brexit…
The UK Government’s white paper setting out plans for the future skills-based immigration system maps a path which will restrict UK LSPs’ ability to recruit linguists from outside of the UK after Brexit. The ATC is launching a Brexit immigration…
ATC’s ISO Certification Service is one year old. Congratulations and thank you to the quality-minded companies who have gained certification with us! And what a year it has been. If anything, it has cemented our belief that there is a…
Around 60% of ATC member companies are micro and small businesses. While much of the support offered by industry bodies to LSPs is invaluable, regardless of what size your organisation is, smaller LSPs often face challenges that are very distinct…
As a member of the ATC, we know you have stories to tell about your business; stories that show why you value ATC membership; stories that share your examples of best practice; stories that showcase what our industry has to…
In the UK, there’s a lot of talk about a new “Global Britain”, post-Brexit. It’s not entirely clear what that is yet, but it sure isn’t going to go global without language services enabling multilingual communication. So far we’ve established…
