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RANKING 2019 UK Language Centres
Real life, genuine fun! MILLFIELD Three cheers for Contents
MAKING THE GRADE
It’s easy to see why kids and teens would want to spend their summer at BOSS. ENGLISH LANGUAGE HOLIDAY COURSES British EFL How top schools hang onto
It’s an e�perien�e of a life�me that o�ers more than meets the eye! 20 their staff
IDYLLIC COUNTRYSIDE Across all sectors, the UK’s language
BuckswoodSummerSchool SETTING OFFERING A centres are improving, based on the 21-22
SCHOOLS SPOTLIGHT
Buckswood Overseas Summer School (BOSS) RANGE OF SPORTS AND latest reports from the British Council Two family businesses
ACTIVITES FOR JUNIORS inspectors, reports Melanie Butler
www.buckswoodsummerschool.com
Welcome to our new rankings, and congratulations to all our new
summerschool@buckswood.co.uk Centres of Excellence. RANKINGS
So who has been on the move in our rankings and what does this Our 2019 league table and
tell you about the industry? 23-33 how to read it
Among the year-round private language schools, it is the well-
established, family-run schools that have led the charge up the
ANALYSIS
league tables. Two London schools, Victoria School of English and 33
Kensington Academy, make their first appearance, as does ESP The role of high quality teaching
specialist MLS Bournemouth. Two ‘grand old schools’ in classic
destinations also rose strongly: Studio Cambridge, recently acquired
by Chinese education giant First Circle, and ELC Eastbourne,
which features in our interview on page 46. 34
ACCREDITATION
JOINT TOP But when it comes to destinations, the top-scoring schools The impact of the IALC
BOARDING SCHOOL in less well-known locations have also come to the fore. So,
PROVIDER IN THE UK congratulations go to Leeds School of English, St Brelade’s,
IN EL GAZETTE RANKINGS in Jersey and the Liverpool school of English, whose founder
Maria McDonell explains on page 16 how the culture of a city
INTERVIEW: LEE HAWKES
can inspire a school.
15 hours of English tuition and two Summer Boarding Courses is the first summer operation to achieve 35
excursions per week, plus a full activity and social programme The young learner specialists have made an even bigger splash. The secret of St Edmund‘s success
a perfect score, with Discovery Summer on 14 points and Millfield
T +44 (0) 1458 444 112 | Somerset, UK
E mahc@millfieldschool.com | W englishholidaycourses.com Summer Course on 13, just behind. Stonyhurst’s language school
also joins the boarding school band of high performers.
Young learners have also produced our highest-riser as Broadstairs
English Centre, which specializes in year-round school groups,
Established in 1976, a family owned and run school has rocketed into the top 2 per cent, with its unique wrap-around Expand your experience
learning approach (see page 16).
British Council Accredited Wimbledon School of English Juniors flies straight into the top
10 percent on its first inspection, joined in the rankings by fellow and develop new ideas
Small, safe English seaside town summer schools UKLC, Churchill House and Regents, which
joins British Study Centres as the only chain school with holiday with NILE’s expert trainers
Separate Junior and Teenage departments operations to be named as an EL Gazette Centre of Excellence.
The chain schools had a relatively quiet year, with few major
Dedicated team of teachers provide lessons changes. Oxford House London entered the rankings, the first
tailored to student needs Australian-owned operation to do so, while Kings Brighton joins Short courses, CELTA, Delta and MA for language
its sister schools in London Oxford in the rankings. EF Eastbourne teachers and trainers in the UK, overseas and online.
makes its first appearance, while the Kaplan Bath and Torquay
both went up. Contact registrar@nile-elt.com
Among the university language centres, Edgehill became
our highest-ever scoring, newly-accredited centre, scooping 12 ĨŽƌ ŵŽƌĞ ŝŶĨŽƌŵĂƟŽŶ͘
out of 14 strengths on its first inspection, and placing it just
behind Liverpool, another new entry from the North West.
Newly-accredited Chichester, Swansea, and our top-scoring
pathway programme, INTO Queen’s Belfast, also receive our
congratulations.
Three Further Education (FE) colleges have also become new
Caring activity leaders provide a fun, varied & Centres of Excellence: Perth College, Scotland; Belfast Metropolitan
supervised social programme in Northern in Ireland; and, in Wales, Pembrokshire College.
Carefully chosen host families, all checked in Meanwhile, in England, the highest FE performer, East Sussex
accordance with the British Council and English UK College, as our old friend Sussex Downs is now known, secures its
position by scoring 13 areas of strength.
guidelines With nearly a third of all language centres
Free escorted bus transfer to & from London now receiving strengths in 50 per cent or
Heathrow every Saturday more of their areas in their British Council
inspections, we can say for certain that the
quality of EFL in the UK is MELANIE BUTLER,
growing ever stronger. EDITOR IN CHIEF www.nile-elt.com
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