Canterbury English was founded by Richard Clarke in 1991 and Canterbury English TEFL and the Garcia Lorca Spanish School was founded in 2001 by Richard and James Clarke and John Bouse.
After many years of teaching experience in Madrid, and after running an English school for almost a decade, providing work for English teachers and training them informally, we thought that it was time to start our own official Teachers Training program, with a guaranteed job included, which we have been providing to thousands of our graduates ever since.Why Canterbury
What’s the difference between a TEFL course that includes a job and one that, at best, just farms you out, promising you a job. Some, hedging their bets, say jobs go to our top graduates, while others even go so far out on a limb (or on a plank) as saying they have 100% job placement (farming out) success rate!!!
Promises, promises, promises! Politicians make campaign promises…used car dealers make almost-brand-new promises… mom and pop make mom and pop promises… teenage lovers make romantic promises… and sometimes… they fulfill their promises … but sometimes… they don’t.
And if they don’t and you have sold everything and have moved countries to do this course with its promised job, you feel the terrible uncertainty Wendy must have felt, when Pirate Captain Hook made her walk the plank over the Never Never Land sea, with a big bad Crocodile waiting down below, opening its jaws wide enough so you can see the alarm clock about to go off!!!!
But don’t worry, Peter Pan, dressed in the green garb of Canterbury English, will fly down out of the ever-ever land blue, Madrid sky and come to your rescue.