Terms & Conditions 

Course fees

• The course fees include: Assessment and progress tests, registration, tuition, some teaching materials, one course book for General and Business courses over 1 week, a certificate of study on successful completion, some freetime activities, tea and coffee in the morning break.
  
• The course fees do not include: Insurance, bank charges, the costs for excursions and certain activities, course books for 1 week courses and FCE, CAE & TAP courses, writing materials or paper.
• Course prices do not include the cost of accommodation or airport transfer.

Lessons

• All lessons are 45 minutes
• Lessons are from Monday to Friday
• Students can start on any Monday. Students can start on Tuesday, however, the Monday will not be made up or refunded.
• Students will receive an assessment test.
• A minimum of 3 students required to offer a regular class of 30 or 20 lessons a week. When there are only 2 or less student/s enrolled, the student/s will receive 20 Private lessons per week instead of 30 or 15 Private lessons instead of 20. If there are only 2 or less students enrolled in 10 lessons out of the 30 lesson course, the student/s will have 20 group lessons + 5 private lessons per week. There will be no change in fees.

Holidays

• The school is not open on the following days:
  
  • Saturdays and Sundays
  • 13/12/2007
  • 22/12/07 - 06/01/08
  • 10/02/08 (Saturday)
  • 19, 21, 31/03/08
  • 01/05/08
  • 07/06/08 (Saturday)
  • 29/06/08 (Sunday)
  • 15/08/08
  • 08/09/08
  • 21/09/08 (Sunday)
  • 08/12/08
  • 13/12/08 (Saturday)
  • 20/12/08 - 04/01/09
    
• In weeks where there are public holidays, courses will be shorter. However, on the other 4 days,
  the timetable will be extended by 30 minutes per day.
• There is no reduction in the course fees where a course includes a public holiday. One-to-one lessons will be rearranged.

Registration

• To book a course please complete the online registration form. Your booking will be acknowleged within a few hours.
• To confirm your booking a deposit of 80 Euro (for courses up to 200 Euro) or 150 Euro (for course/accommodation over 200 Euro) is payable.
• The deposit and fees can be paid by credit card or bank transfer.
• The balance of the fees is payable at the latest 2 weeks before the course start.
• Credit card payments are subject to a 3% supplement charged by our bank.
• Fees sent by bank transfer should be sent all charges paid.
• Due to visa problems registrations from Africa cannot be processed.
  

Course and Accommodation Changes

• We require minimum 1 week's notice for changes to any course booking or your accommodation booking (not including cancellation).
• If accommodation is changed the school reserves the right to charge a supplement. This supplement may be up to the cost of 1 week of the original accommodation booked.
  
• While we make every effort to make the change you request, we cannot guarantee changes requested.
• If we are unable to provide you with the accommodation or airport transfer service or a reasonable alternative, we will refund in full.

Cancellations

• Please inform us as soon as possible if you need to cancel. Cancellations must be in writing.
• There is a cancellation fee of Euro 150 for all cancellations.
• If you cancel in the week before your course 50% of your course and accommodation fees will be refunded.
• There is no refund of course and accommodation fees once the course has begun.
• There is no refund if a student misses lessons.
• We will refund payment if we need to cancel your course.

Accommodation

• The Maltese system used for awarding stars for hotel and apartments may not be comparable with your country.

Insurance

• Students must have adequate travel and medical insurance for Malta.
• Students are strongly advised to purchase adequate insurance to cover all eventualities e.g. cancellation, theft or accidents.

"English only"

• In order to provide students with a complete English immersion, we follow a strict English only policy in the school.

Liability

• All disputes are to be settled by Maltese law.
• We do not accept liability for any loss, damage or misadventure you may suffer in the school, accommodation.
• Errors and omissions excluded.