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You already run a summer programme from your premises. However, for a variety of possible factors, you would like to review things. It might be the types of programme, the stress of organising everything, recruitment issues (staff and/or students), profitability, etc.
We can talk things through with you, offer a fresh perspective and provide the support you need.
You lease your premises to an external provider to deliver summer courses. Now though you would like to bring the operation inhouse. It might be for staff opportunities, realising your vision, opening up new markets for year round applications, etc.
We can talk things through with you, offer a fresh perspective and provide the support you need.
You don’t run a summer programme from your premises yet. You would like to consider doing so and what is required to make it successful. You appreciate there is a great deal to consider if you want to do it right, but it’s not easy to get that information.
We can talk things through with you, offer a fresh perspective and provide the support you need.
Our 50 + years of experience will help you plan, launch and deliver fantastic short courses.
Thom Jones
Thom Jones has lived in more than a dozen countries and delivered training in over 70. Having been a truly useless student (and proving it frequently by failing all the exams he was set) he started his professional life as a waiter then a gardener, before going into teaching, then management, and eventually freelance. Formerly part of the senior executive at Embassy CES before becoming Director of Operations USA for Studygroup he returned to the UK to work with Trinity College London and now works with a variety of organisations on a wide variety of projects. He runs one of the UK’s most successful summer programmes for SBC each summer and runs his own company: Brock Solutions Agency. He presents regularly around the world on a range of topics and is a guest lecturer at four universities. He is also a freelance trainer in business and management.
In 2008 he cycled from the UK to Turkey, travelling through 11 countries along the way. As a charity fundraiser, he arrived at IATEFL 2015 in Manchester having cycled from Frankfurt in only five days, accompanied by round-the-world cyclist, Julian Sayarer. Julian got there first.
He is rubbish at maths. His mother thinks he is great.
Jon Crocker
A gas explosion destroying Jon’s London home led to a life in international education. With only the clothes he stood up in, he left the capital to restart his life in Bournemouth, a thriving hub for language schools, teaching English.
Like a human magnet for explosions, a year later working in Madrid he survived an ETA bomb that caused the ceiling of his classroom to collapse and prompted his decision to end the lesson slightly early. Since the mid-90s, he’s worked with some of the big names in language schools including Nord Anglia, Aspect and OISE. From running summer schools to managing them across the UK and from Principal of a high-end language school to Head of a boutique international boarding school, he has gained a depth of experience in all aspects of operations from accommodation and social programmes to recruitment and marketing.
As a consultant, Jon continues to be involved in projects that include being asked by English UK to provide training videos for Activity Leaders on the topics of teamwork and professionalism. His social enterprise supports young people in social mobility coldspots. Thom’s mother hasn’t expressed any opinion of him. Yet…