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Brazilian Footballer William Machado de Oliveira Learning English at EC

It’s an exciting time to be a football fan at EC London and Malta at the moment – How would you feel about having a star football player as a classmate? Newly retired Brazilian footballer William Machado de Oliveira, better known as William, has been learning English with EC for the last few months! After […]

Team EC at Extreme Sailing Series 2011

We are very happy to announce that Seb and Benji’s Malta 49er team are taking part in the first 49er class of the European Extreme Sailing Series (ESS). The boys will be one of eight teams competing in race meets in the UK, Italy, France and Spain. As exclusive sponsors of the Malta 49er, the […]

Cape Town: The World's Favourite Place!

All the votes have been collected, counted, re-counted and counted again, so it’s time to announce the winner of The Traveller’s Choice 2011 Destinations Award….and the winner is *opens envelope* CAPE TOWN! Each year millions of travellers leave their reviews and recommendations on the world’s biggest travel website TripAdvisor.com. The website is essential reading for […]

Michael's marathon dream is up and running

EC’s Michael Dewar is taking up a worthy challenge, he’s running the 2011 London Marathon for charity. Being a Londoner, Michael had always enjoyed watching the race while being semi-curious to take part. After successfully finishing a half-marathon in Madrid last year, Michael has been hard at work training for London’s 42km course. On 17 […]

EC Malta's Ministerial Visit

Taking an English course in Malta is a unique experience. Students enjoy a backdrop of unrivalled weather and stunning scenery while being immersed in the English language. As a bilingual country, students visiting Malta can ‘live English’ at all times. With all this appeal, it’s little wonder then that every year Malta hosts in excess […]

EC Wins 2010 Star Award

We did it again! For the second year in a row EC has taken home a top award at the annual LTM Star Awards. Retaining our crown in the Innovation Category, we were also shortlisted in the Junior Course for under 18s and Chain School categories. Since the inaugural Star Awards 5 years ago, EC […]

EC Sponsors Maltese Boat in Olympic Bid

Sailing since the age of seven, Seb and Ben have a growing international reputation and a determination that they hope will take them all the way to the London 2012 Olympic Games. The pair are aiming to represent Malta in the High Performance Dinghy (49er) category in London. And as proud main-sponsors of teamSeb&Ben, EC […]

EC receives a record-breaking 3 nominations for the Star Awards

We at EC are happy and proud to let you know that we have just received a record breaking 3 nominations for the 2010 Star Award! This is an amazing feat and to the best of our knowledge, a first for the industry. No school or group of schools have ever received so many nominations […]

EC wins 2010 Excellence Award

We are proud to announce that we have won an award for excellence from a popular online English course provider. EC London, EC Malta & Cape Town all scored 4.1 out of 5 in a satisfaction survey of 1000 worldwide students. The 2010 Excellence Awards are awarded for schools that consistently provide outstanding service to […]

EC London Voted Top UK School

Top Japanese study abroad agents Ryugaku Journal have chosen EC London as the top English language school in the UK. Based on the reports of hundreds of Ryugaku Journal studying English around the world, EC London was chosen as the best UK school and seventh world-wide. Schools were rated by students on the following criteria: […]