Shane English School

• Established by Shane Lipscombe in June 1977. Part of the    Saxoncourt group of companies
• Largest British-owned English teaching organisation in Japan
  Nearly 400 academic (ex-pat) staff
• More than 200 schools, mostly in the Kanto (Greater Tokyo) region
• Schools also in Nagoya and Kyushu (please note that Saxoncourt only recruits teachers for the Kanto region)
• More than 40,000 students
• Most Shane schools are directly owned by the company; 25% are franchises

Customer Service

• Pioneer in the teaching of English to younger learners
• High quality service offered to all the children, teenagers, parents, housewives, young professionals and business people who study there
• Schools are very much part of the local neighbourhood, providing a friendly, professional service to many kinds of students.
• Great emphasis placed on providing good quality, good value, caring service to its students
• A high proportion of students join through word of mouth recommendations and/or as a result of participating in trial/demonstration lessons

British English

• Marketed as THE British English school (rather than American English, which most other language schools teach)
• 90% of teachers are British
• Also recruit teachers from Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Canada
• Aspects of British culture introduced through themes and topics in the syllabus and through social events organised for students.
• American English is still the most important medium for international business and children will need to know American spelling for their school exams