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Due to the health alert caused by coronavirus COVID-19, Instituto Cervantes in the United Kingdom, following British and Spanish authorities’ guidelines, has decided, in order to protect the health of all involved, to transfer its classroom based group lessons to online platforms and to suspend its cultural programme in the centers of London, Manchester and Leeds until further notice.

Please kindly check Instituto Cervantes in Manchester and Leeds’ websites for further details and announcements.

MEASURES FOR LONDON:

Academic activity: classroom based group lessons are suspended from Tuesday, March 17th. We will start teaching our classes remotely from Friday, March 20th. 

Tuesday, March 17th, Wednesday, March 18th and Thursday, March 19th there will be NO group based class of any kind and these sessions will be moved at the end the course timetable. 

The teacher in charge of each group will contact their students as soon as possible to give them precise details about the implementation of the classes on line, and about the recovery of 17^th, 18^th, and 19^th on March sessions, when applicable. 

We will continue to teach our classes remotely until the end of the present term. 

• The Spanish AVE Global on-line courses, as well as the rest of the Instituto Cervantes’ on-line teacher training, are still in operation.

• The CCSE exam scheduled for March 26th in London goes ahead

• DELE exams in May are suspended. Students who registered will be contacted by Instituto Cervantes to reschedule their exam to July or September.

• All the scheduled cultural activities are postponed

• Our libraries will remain closed and the deadline for returns of any borrowed items will be extended accordingly. All the services of our electronic library will remain available. You may find additional information on the YouTube channel of each center (London, Manchester, and Leeds). 

Please follow us here as well as on our website and our social networks for further updates of the situation and notification of the normalization of our activities.

For any questions or additional information, you can contact us via email in London (cenlon@cervantes.es), Manchester (cenman@cervantes.es) and Leeds (cenlee@cervantes.es).

Instituto Cervantes will continue to collaborate with authorities by conveying our plans and data and following the recommendations given in order to limit the spread of the COVID-2019 coronavirus.