ACCET
ACCET (Accrediting Council for Continuing Education & Training) is a USA governmental organization in place to control and inspect continuing education institutions. This includes USA-based language schools. Schools that are accredited by ACCET are amongst the best in the country.

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE
Alliance Française is a state recognized, non-profit, independent education organization. It was established in 1883 with the goal of promoting French language and culture.

BRITISH COUNCIL
The British Council is Great Britain’s education and culture organization. The purpose of its inception was to help build relationships between the people of the United Kingdom and other countries. Many of our British partner schools are accredited by the British Council.

EAQUALS
The European Association for Quality Language Services (EAQUALS) is a Europe-wide network of language travel providers. It is the only international association of language schools to enforce independent controls in order to screen members for quality.

ELICOS
The language school sector in Australia is joined under ELICOS (English Language Intensive Courses for Foreigners). The ELICOS language school federation is a network of members and itself can be contacted with questions at any time by international students. Language centres recognized by ELICOS must register with the government in order to be permanently classified.

ENGLISH UK
In May 2004, the two leading associations in the UK – ARELS and BASELT – joined to form English UK, which is the world’s largest association in the language travel industry. Membership consists of about 330 language schools, many of which are our partner schools.

GOETHE INSTITUT
Goethe Institut is a non-profit organization with 776 centres in 141 countries. The goal of the institute is to promote the German language in foreign countries as well as foster international cultural co-operation. Programs run through the institute include German as a foreign language, German language teacher training, didactic seminars and cultural events. It also provides information about the country, culture, art, science and politics.

IALC
The International Association of Language Centres (IALC) was founded in 1983 for the purpose of accrediting and representing private, independent language schools that provide language training in the official language(s) of the countries in which they operate. Today there are 86 IALC schools in 21 countries around the world, teaching English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portugese, Russian or Spanish, to all age and interest levels.

INSTITUTO CERVANTES
Instituto Cervantes is a public, non-profit institution, started in 1991 by the Spanish government in order to promote the learning of the Spanish language and knowledge about Spanish-speaking cultures around the world.

QUALITY ENGLISH
Boa Lingua is an official agent of the Quality English association. Only independent, reputable language travel agents are able to be part of the Quality English group.