Information for Students Affected by the ILAC Closure

Languages Canada is coordinating placements, and its Education Completion Assurance Plan aims to place you in a comparable programme at another member school and credit the tuition you already paid toward it. Claims must be filed within 30 business days of the closure date, which for ILAC is September 18, 2026. If you do nothing else today, do this.

Know what the plan does not promise, because Languages Canada says so itself: it is not a guarantee, it cannot promise a place for everyone, you do not choose the school you are assigned to, and where no comparable programme is found the separate assurance fund pays at most 25% of unearned tuition, first come first served, until it is exhausted. Homestay fees and specialised programmes are outside it entirely, and so are students who were in ILAC's high school and vocational programmes rather than its language programmes.

Go to Languages Canada before you come to us. It is Languages Canada that assigns students to receiving schools, and receiving schools are told not to take direct registrations from a closed programme, so signing up with us first could cost you the tuition credit. Once your claim is in, we can take a referral.

We are a designated learning institution and we can issue a letter of acceptance to anyone who qualifies and is funding their own studies.

If you are unsure what your options are, contact us and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.