This month sees Edinburgh College significantly scale up it’s involvement in an important national teacher training programme in Turkey. In partnership with the British Council, the College is providing bespoke online training to 300 English teachers from 24 regions across the country as part of the new ‘English Together’ Programme. The course will see trainers…
Edinburgh College has secured an exciting new partnership with Hainan University in China that will see the College play a key role in teaching English for Business to students over the next five years. The first cohort of fifty students will begin online study with Edinburgh College lecturers this week as part of the five-year…
Last week saw the start of a new programme in which Edinburgh College’s ESOL team will provide remote training to a large group of English teachers from Rwanda. The course forms part of the Building Learning Foundations (BLF) Programme funded by the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID), which aims to improve the quality of teaching…
Edinburgh College has launched a new programme in China which will see the College play a key role in the teaching of Early Years education in one of the country’s major cities. This month marked the start of the College’s new three-year English Language and Early Years Education Programme in China, developed in partnership with…
Earlier this month, Edinburgh College, working in partnership with the British Council in Turkey, hosted 22 English language teachers for a two-week mentor training course aimed at developing the teaching practice of participants and preparing them to take on leading roles in the development of English language teaching in Turkey upon their return to the…
Edinburgh College has hosted an English Language Summer School for more than 30 years, and this year was no different with 102 students from 16 countries spending their time in the capital with our International team. During the 2019 Summer School, students from Panama, Italy, Spain, Japan, Kazakhstan and other countries from across the world,…
Do you enjoy meeting and helping people, and have a spare room that is private and comfortable? We are looking for warm, friendly people to host students from a wide variety of countries, both on a short (one to six-weeks) and long-term basis (two to four-months). Options exist to host with meals included – or…
Edinburgh College has hosted an English Language Summer School for more than 30 years, and this year is no different with around 100 students from 12 countries spending their time in the capital with our International team. The 2018 Summer School is now approaching the end of its third week with students from Russia, Spain,…
If you want to travel and experience something new, consider coming to Edinburgh in the Summer months for international study at Edinburgh College. Here are our top five reasons for coming to the college, and for visiting Scotland. Make friends from all around the world When studying abroad it’s important to have people to share…
A group of Brazilian students who have been studying with Edinburgh College are leaving Scotland with improved English language skills and a real knowledge of the country’s tourism and hospitality industry. Ten students arrived from South America in January to learn about the vigorous and fast-paced nature of the Hospitality and Tourism sector at the…
A group of 32 teachers from Azerbaijan have returned to their classrooms equipped with improved English teaching skills thanks to a course provided by Edinburgh College’s International and college-based English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teams. The primary and secondary English teachers, the first group to visit the college from Azerbaijan, completed the one-week intensive…