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- Why choose ESL?
Value
Expertise
We know about language teaching too. ESL originally started out as a school in 1996 and we continue to operate French language schools in Switzerland and France as well as junior camps in several locations for French, German, Italian and English languages. We transfer this educational expertise to the language travel agency side of the business, allowing us to develop unique programs with partner schools.
Quality of Service
Overseas language travel can be a defining experience in your life. It is certainly an investment. At ESL, we are here before, during and after your stay to guarantee you the level of service this kind of investment deserves.
We offer the most diverse range of options on the market and your program will be tailor-made according to your needs. Our multilingual staff will assist you from A-Z, using extensive knowledge and training to craft the right trip for you.
Our team regularly visit and are in constant contact with all partner schools to ensure that they are giving our students the best possible experience. We always speak to students during and after a trip to get feedback, which is then acted upon.
So what does this mean for you?
Free and unbiased expert consultation, including language level testing.
Complete A-Z organisation of your trip, including travel, study and accommodation.
Guidance through the process of applying for a visa (where necessary).
An assurance that, should anything go wrong, you are covered.
Our dedication to personalised service is demonstrated by running 30+ drop-in offices around the world and regular appearances at fairs and road shows. If you want to meet us, we definitely want to meet you.
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The Right Partner Schools
Here are some aspects we consider essential:
- Guaranteed quality of teaching and the right variety of courses offered. This lets us offer the right level of study program for each student.
- The energy of the school. As a dynamic agency, we like dynamic schools.
- The right accommodation options.
- A healthy mix of nationalities. We send students from all over the world to our partner schools. This helps to speed up learning and makes for a more interesting journey.
- The school must be a portal to the local community and activities. Learning doesn’t just happen in a classroom.
- Our staff know each partner school intimately; use their knowledge and experience to find the right environment for you.
For more about our programmes and partner schools, click here.
Applying our Know-How
All of our staff work closely with the team in our Montreux head office (including regular visits and training sessions) to ensure that you benefit from the latest innovations in language learning and get the right program for your needs.
Throughout our expansion, we have maintained a reputation within the industry for quality of service and innovation.
Martin McDonald
Marketing Director of Global Village Australia
Having personally visited over 20 ESL offices, it is great to see the same quality of service and information provided to our future students in such a wide variety of locations. With such a geographic spread, ESL is a truly pan-European operation and our partnership gives us excellent exposure across many of our key markets. As our partnership evolves we look forward to developing new ways of highlighting our schools’ unique attractions to ESL’s growing client base. Read more
Andrew Roper
Managing Director of British Study
I love the innovative approach ESL brings to the business, always developing new ideas such as the ‘Job Club’ which we operate in our schools at ESL’s suggestion and which has helped many hundreds of students find work experience in the UK; or the ‘Student Houses’ which we developed together with ESL and which have become our most popular form of accommodation, enabling our students to live in comfortable shared surroundings with other students from our schools, living together, cooking together, learning English together, enjoying a 360 degree experience.
ESL has a strong intuitive feeling for the needs of their clients, which destination would suit their client best, how to make the most of their stay in the UK, what tools they need before they travel, what they will need during their stay. And then there is the follow-up, the feedback we receive from ESL after the student has returned home, comments on aspects of the stay which have gone particularly well, suggestions on how to further improve our products and service. It is this level of care and service which I most appreciate, this attention to detail. No stone is left unturned in the pursuit of satisfying customers’ needs.
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Sebastien Martinez
Embassy CES Sales Manager, Europe
ESL: synonym of a quality label in the field of language training. For over 10 years now, EmbassyCES has been partnering with ESL and enjoyed a dynamic collaboration that contributed to expand many students academic and career’s futures using successful and established English training methods. Read more
Andrew Mangion
Executive Chairman, EC Group
We have enjoyed a rock-solid partnership with ESL for more than ten years. During that time, we have seen ESL’s success as it has grown from a single office in Montreux to the worldwide network of agencies of today. We’re happy to say that EC and ESL have grown together and that our relationship with ESL is professional, proactive, cooperative, comprehensive and equitable. It is made all the stronger by the entrepreneurial values our organisations share, benevolence and a high level of trust between us. We respect the professionalism and engagement of ESL’s staff, whom we consider to be an example for the whole industry. It is an honour for us to work with ESL and we look forward to many more years of successful collaboration to come. Read more
