We understand how important it is to have a good mix of nationalities in a quality language school. With this in mind, we would like to suggest that we do not accept any more new bookings for students from Korea for courses starting before June 12th.
At ELC Bristol, the markets which have made the strongest recovery are in order: Korea, Switzerland, Saudi, Japan, Turkey and the Netherlands. Inevitably, while we wait for a similar recovery from all markets, our overall numbers in the school are lower than what they were pre-pandemic. We currently have 140 students in the school including 15 from Korea, although, of course, we expect this to grow as we approach the summer.
I am sure that you will understand and agree that our absolute priority is not the number of students in the school but keeping our students happy.
So for the time being, we would welcome any new Korean students starting with us after June 13.
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Currently there is an offer to Korean students of 10% reduction on tuition fees if they enrol for 12+ weeks.
We hope you¡¯re doing OK in this strange and difficult time. Let¡¯s hope it¡¯s all over before very long!
We wanted to get in touch to let you know that we have decided to offer an incentive (similar to the one we did last year) to help encourage students to come and study with us during this difficult time. Of course, at the moment you may have very few bookings for the UK at all but things may open up very soon, so we thought if you have this offer in readiness, it might help. Announcements should be made on Monday next week.
As you may know, it looks likely that schools may be permitted to open from March 8th or soon thereafter although we won¡¯t know this for sure until next week. Fingers crossed! We will be continuing to run our usual full-time intensive courses online with the same teachers and quality as normal until we can open.
It also sounds like pubs with outdoor seating/gardens may be able to open a month or two later ? we can¡¯t wait for that and neither can our students.
We do know that arriving students will have to:
Have a negative test within 3 days before they leave their country
Have a test on day 2 after arriving in the UK
Have another test on day 8 after arriving
Quarantine for 10 days, then they can come out after that if all tests have been negative
Our new Cambridge exam term starts on the 15th March, so we are hopeful we will be open for normal classes in school then. So what we would like to offer students is this:
1 week¡¯s free accommodation in St John¡¯s house (normally GBP195 per week) from the weekend of 6/7 March while they are quarantining and getting their 2 tests done
During that week we will offer them free online learning and study materials, plus will have several Zoom calls with them to interview them, get to know their level, their needs and support them and get to know them personally
We will then start online Cambridge Exam classes and General English and IELTS classes from 15th March
Then they can (hopefully) join us on day 11 - either the Tuesday or Wednesday of that week, depending on when they fly in ? for real in-school classes
We only have 9 rooms in St John¡¯s for that period, so it¡¯s first come, first served! We also have a few en suite rooms in Granby Hill self-catering residence too and would offer the free week there too.
Do remind them there¡¯s no risk if things change as we offer free cancellation if they don¡¯t want to come if things have changed before then.
We hope this helps! Please let me know if anything is unclear and fingers crossed you and we can get back to normal life and normal travel returns soon for all of us!! Hope to see you all in person again soon!!!
Very best wishes
Andrew, John and Margaret
----- Andrew Edwards Principal
ELC Bristol
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Student residences and houses - availability at ELC Bristol
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Student residences and houses - availability at ELC Bristol
Please always check availability with us first before confirming a booking with a student as these residences are popular and begin to fill up as the summer approaches.
Wishing you a lovely and very happy and successful summer!