IC Formación is a private language school based in Bilbao, on the northern coast of Spain. It opened in 1994 and specialises in the field of developmental education, including the promotion of Anglo-Saxon, French, German, Italian, Basque and Spanish culture. We offer a wide variety of language services to many different sectors of the community, both locally and on an international basis.

Services offered

 IC Formación provides Business Professionals, Teaching Professionals and the General Public with tailor-made courses in various languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Basque, as well as Spanish for those visiting from other parts of the world and wishing to study in the unique setting which the Basque Country has to offer.

We also offer translation and interpreting services; exam preparation for a wide range of disciplines; methodology seminars; summer camps/courses; study programmes abroad and interactive educational tours of Bilbao and the surrounding area for tourists, foreign visitors to our business clients and local school children.

We, at International Centre, consider that our wide range of quality services puts us in the forefront of the Educational service sector.
 

In 2003 we started working towards developing a quality management system. We were the first English-teaching school in Vizcaya to be granted the PREMIE Award. In 2006 we received the National CECAP Premio a la Iniciativa Empresarial for our alliance with two other language schools in Bilbao. In November 2011 we were awarded the Basque government's Silver Q Award, based on the EFQM model. We continue to work towards excellence, and hope to gain the Gold Q Award and ultimately, EFQM.

Our Mission

IC Formación is a private company dedicated to language training. Our objective is to offer a wide range of linguistic services that will meet the needs and expectations of our clients on a local, national and international scale. In order to do so, we strive to give the persons that work in our organisation the training they need in order to develop their professional skills as well as guarantee stability in their work career while at the same time promoting our educational and social values. 

These three basic statements summarise our purpose and the goals we are driven by:

• Dedication to quality in teaching, education and training
• Commitment towards work stability for the people of our organisation
• Fostering the development of professional skills, by providing them with the necessary, personalised training

Therefore, all of the actions undertaken by IC Formación aim to offer the highest level of satisfaction possible to all our stakeholders, above all those closest to us, like our staff and our clients.

As a teaching organisation, we want the quality of our service to be unquestionably the factor that makes us stand apart in our sector. In order for that, we select the people to join our team with special care, and we offer them all the support and resources they need to carry out their work successfully. Part of these resources is to contribute to their development as educators, through training and a process of continuous improvement.

We believe that a stable work environment helps people develop professionally, and so one of our objectives is to guarantee this stability in as much as we can.

The School

The school is situated in the neighbourhood of Deusto, within walking distance of the city centre and very close to train, underground and bus services. For information about the city, see www.bilbao.net and www.bilbaoweb.com.

Our in-house clients include young children (from the age of four), teenagers and adults. We also teach in numerous businesses and companies in and around the city. We prepare students for all the Cambridge EFL exams, and we are an official Trinity centre. All our younger students are required to take a Trinity exam at the end of each academic year.

At IC Formación we are very proud of our teaching methodology, which focuses on communication and aims to enable students to use the language effectively. We use the CEF as a reference for all our levels and coursebooks. Our groups have a maximum of 10 students.

Our staff consists of 15 teachers, as well as a DOS, a Director and a secretary. We have seven classrooms, and a well-equipped resource library, with a photocopier, in the Staff room.. There are 5 computers, with broadband and wifi connections. All our classrooms have heating and air-conditioning, modern furniture, whiteboards and audio facilities. Some of our classrooms are also equipped with interactive white boards.

Our teachers are required to participate in the in-house training programme, and external training is funded by the school. We have two-hour meetings every Friday, for coordination and other purposes.

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