No, it’s not essential to have this experience although it may be helpful to you if you have taught, or worked in a language school.

• All teaching resources including teaching manuals and study plans

• A tailored training programme delivered in-country

• On-going business development consultancy to help you with your business strategy and day to day management, and marketing /PR support

• A full set of management manuals

• Access to the Linguaphone Group Extranet and other management software

We highly recommend that you open a pilot centre and operate it for at least 6 months, before recruiting Unit Franchisees. Our programmes work best when they are centre based, as they have been designed to provide a blended learning approach. Additionally, operating a centre will provide you with excellent hands-on experience. However, we don’t insist that you open a centre and we do offer other market entry models.

We provide initial training to our partners and their staff, including tutors in market before their launch. We will train the team on all aspects of delivering the programme, including the teaching to customers during this period. After this training the Master Franchisees will be expected to provide any further training to new teaching staff as and when it is required.

As Direct English and Pingu’s English are franchised exclusively by Linguaphone Group, it is not possible to produce locally. All teaching and learning materials must be purchased directly from Linguaphone Group in the UK.