Verkmenntaskólinn á Akureyri (VMA) is a comprehensive college in Northern Iceland offering many different types of study at the secondary level. VMA offers vocational programmes as well as academic studies for matriculation to the university level. Until now VMA as most VET institutions in Iceland uses the same English courses for most students regardless of the type of study. This means that teachers have groups of students from many different departments, a mix of academic students aiming for university and VET students mostly interested in their practical subjects. It is however very important for all students academic and VET students to learn English as Iceland is a small community and very dependent on communication and cooperation with other countries. This project handles sending a group of 8 teachers of English from VMA to a week long course in Scotland, autumn 2015, to discuss and learn about approaching English as a subject for VET learners. The group of teachers is very experienced in their teaching and their broad view of secondary education in general. The plan is to further the work VMA has been doing in International projects on the cooperation between the college and workplaces and now we want to focus on the importance of a general subject in the VET programme. After finishing the course the group of teachers will design and organize English courses specifically for VET students. The courses will be reviewed by the course coordinators at the school, the stakeholders within different sectors of the VET education and by the Icelandic ministry of education. Finally we hope to be able to offer the new courses to students when they select their studies for autumn semester 2016. Hopefully this means we can start teaching the new courses autumn 2016. This project is both seen as a part of the wide vision VMA has of the school´s role in the small society in Northern Iceland being the only major vocational college and as a part of trying to increase the interest of students in VET studies. Like in so many communities we face both a big problem of early school leaving and the problem of not getting students into the VET studies we need more people to finish. The school leavers often find the general subject an obstacle to their successful graduation from VET programmes. Some of them lack ability in academics but often this also includes a general lack of interest in general subjects because students feel that Icelandic, math and English are not relevant to their VET studies and training. VMA hopes a deep discussion among teachers of English and subsequent design of English courses directed to the VET students will lead to a change in teaching and learning and a change in the number of interested students in VET and an increase in the proportion of students that graduate.