How To Choose Your English School In Uk

By Author: Alex Carlson
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Okay, you want to learn English to get to university or to improve your career prospects, that's the easy part. Let's say you want to improve your General English skills followed by an IELTS exam course finishing with the IELTS exam with the hope of opening doors to university education around the world. This sorted, where do you start in trying to find a course that suits budget, personality and learning objectives?

Your first choice is whether to study English in your native country or to go abroad. The biggest reasons for wanting to travel to learn English is the search for a higher quality of teaching English and or native English teachers.

These days it goes without saying to choose an English language school that is either (preferably both) English UK or British Council accredited. This should be obvious from the moment you log onto a website or open a brochure.

There is plenty of competition ...
... to learning English in England: USA, Australia and Canada, as well as the new wave of not so obvious choices: Malta, Ireland and South Africa. This said, English courses in the UK are perhaps the most popular choice.

Your next step should be choosing the exact city or region within the UK. Learning English in the south of England is arguably most common: London, Cambridge, Oxford, Brighton and various other south coast resorts are preferred.

If you choose to study General English in the UK, you may also have the option of choosing an exam course such as IELTS, University of Cambridge (PET, FCE or CAE) or Business English. This can maximize your time in the UK and could give you international English qualifications.

As long as you remember what has been said on English School accreditation, sometimes taking the less obvious choice and going to a smaller EFL school in a new destination can give you more than you could ever hope for in terms of interest and attention to detail on a personal level. New locations will have fewer students of one nationality and generally have a great nationality mix. You can not put a price on this.