Working with businesses, governments and educational institutions for over 80 years, providing practical and engaging training and assessment solutions
Empowering organisations to boost communication skills for success
Unparalleled track record of 90 years of partnering with corporate, government and education organisations in 80+ countries to grow English and communication skills
We use our expertise and experience to create scalable, engaging, impactful learning solutions for professionals in all roles, industries and career stages, as well as students, recent graduates and researchers.
We ensure success and take the pain out of training course design and implementation by supporting L&D, HR and business managers through our four-step process.
Create your customised programme
Step 1 – Consultation: We identify skills gaps and learning goals for your organisation.
Step 2 – Design: We create scalable, customised solutions with personalised content and integrated assessment.
Step 3 – Delivery: Our experienced trainers engage your teams and develop relevant, transferable skills to ensure your employees' progress.
Step 4 – Evaluation: We track and report progress, report ROI and help you communicate success to stakeholders.
Our English and Professional Communication Skills training solutions
Join 80+ million learners around the world to see practical results and behavioural change in the workplace. Our programmes include:
- flexible in person, online and blended delivery options
- targeted, relevant workplace skills development
- tools to track training impact and ROI.
Our solutions
Professional Communication Skills: Boost engagement, productivity and performance through enhanced spoken and written communication skills. Each module develops a well-defined communication competency, which can be aligned with your organisation’s capability frameworks.
English Language Skills: Empower your people to communicate more confidently and effectively in workplace and social situations. Engaging self-directed and trainer-led sessions for maximum progress.
Assessment: Globally recognised exams, assessments and credentials that set standards to benchmark, track progress and highlight achievement.
Online training suite
A one-stop solution for English and Professional Communication Skills development. Dashboards and targeted feedback help you report training impact and return on investment. Courses are curated to meet your needs from:
Self-Study: Convenient, scalable, affordable guided learning to strengthen social or workplace English skills when and where it suits learners.
Workplace English: Scalable, cost-effective blended learning, combining flexible self-study with interactivity and feedback in trainer-led sessions.
Social English: Engaging, interactive trainer-led workplace and social English programmes, with premium online learning activities and assessments.
Professional Communication Skills: Targeted, impactful spoken and written workplace communication skills development.
IELTS Coach: Focused language and skills training to help your team and students get the score they need with us, the co-creators of the IELTS test.
Assessment and certification
Enable you to recruit talent, benchmark skills, measure progress and support students to gain admission to institutions around the world.
Our evaluation solution has good scalability and reliability. Our broad range of assessment methods help you seamlessly screen talent, measure skills, track progress and understand the real impact of employee learning. Including:
- globally recognised English tests and assessments
- our team of experts guiding you in choosing the right product to evaluate, tracking your progress and determining your return on investment (ROI)
- Comprehensive and targeted assessments to monitor and report on training progress and help develop project plans and goals
- a widely recognised certificate to boost your learning momentum.
The three most commonly used evaluation products are:
- EnglishScore
- APTIS
- IELTS
Our professional teachers
All of our teachers are passionate and dedicated, meet high international teaching standards, have formal international English teaching qualifications and rich professional English teaching experience.
Our minimum requirements for teachers are that:
- all are degree-educated or have equivalent qualifications
- all have a certificate-level qualification in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, such as the Cambridge University CELTA or the London Trinity College CertTESOL.
- sixty per cent of teachers have DELTA certification
- they have at least two years of teaching experience
- they possess very professional English skills
- they pass a rigorous background check
- they have multicultural backgrounds, teaching in more than 100 countries
- they regularly participate in academic training.
