If you need to improve your overall level of English across all the core language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) for career or study purposes, the Academic Year Course (AYC 30) gives you the platform to achieve your goals.
Start dates are, unlike all our other courses, every 6 weeks with 4 weeks of semester holidays spread over the year.
About the Academic Year Course
To begin with, AYC 30 is a structured and intensive course offering more homework, projects and mentoring by our Director of Studies. To summarize, there are 30 lessons a week, or 6 lessons a day, with 2 lessons a day focusing on your preferred choice of Academic English, Fluency, or Work English. It is thus the ideal course to chart your progress. With more frequent tests, it allows you to personalise your course according to your learning objectives.
Further, you can choose to join the Academic Year Course at any of our 8 entry points throughout the year and follow the programme for 12, 18, 24, 30 or 36 weeks. For students who need to progress for academic reasons onto an exam preparation course (IELTS, TOEFL iBT, TOEIC, Cambridge), this course allows you to switch to your required exam preparation course in the last module of the AYC at no additional cost. However, there is one condition for the switch — you need to be at the required level to start the exam prep course. This will ensure your success in attaining your required grade.
Alternatively, you may just want to improve your English level and communicate better for career or personal reasons. In this case, then the Fluency or Work Streams are the better options for you. Please review the chart below for more information.
In addition, the Academic Year Course (AYC) is one of our best value for money courses, especially if you also book school-offered accommodation. We offer self-catering apartments which are popular with our long-term students from all over the world.