International House - History
The International House World Organisation (IHWO) is a network of language schools worldwide that are committed to implementing high standards of quality and innovation in education and training. There are currently over 130 schools in more than 40 countries. International House was founded in 1953 by John and Brita Haycraft, with the aim of providing an innovative approach to language teaching. IH has remained at the forefront of development in the field of language teaching and in the training of language teachers. IH has recently celebrated its 50th Anniversary. The first school was established in Cordoba in Andalucia in 1953. After 6 years in Spain, John and Brita moved back to the UK and set up International House in London. After running schools based in Covent Garden and Shaftesbury Avenue, they moved the school in 1977 to an 18th century mansion at 106 Piccadilly, opposite Green Park. This former gentleman's club, which had once been the home of Talleyrand, became the centre for teaching and teacher training. Since 1977 the school has grown to over 50 classrooms, and the network that grew out of the groundbreaking work of IH London has grown to over 130 schools worldwide. New academic courses and teacher training programmes are developed here and at IH schools overseas to enhance the service that IH worldwide offers its learners and teachers. The Future The International House World Organisation, which coordinates the network of IH schools worldwide, will be moving to London's South Bank in late 2006.
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We train the teachers International House has been teaching languages since 1953. In 1962, John Haycraft launched the first IH Certificate - the first training course in how to teach languages interactively, without translation, in a lively and motivating way. This groundbreaking course was first advertised in The Spectator in October 1962, and rapidly set the standard for teacher qualfication in ELT, with thousands of teachers worldwide becoming IH-trained. From 1977 to 1988 the certificate was administered by the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and became widely known as the "RSA". In 1988 the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) took over responsibility for the administration of the certificate and it was renamed the Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults (CTEFLA). In 1996 it was updated and re-named the CELTA. The original IH Certificate - now much updated - is still run at IH schools around the world and is content-equivalent to its sister qualification, the CELTA. IH Teachers Write the Books
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