Meet the Staff
Trinity College DipTESOL – Teacher
Amanda Williams has a diploma in teaching English as a Foreign Language and she has been teaching for 12 years. She has worked in China, Thailand, Indonesia and Italy as well as in the UK. Amanda has taught all age groups. She was team manager in China where she designed a course outline and materials for a multimedia based programme. Amanda also has experience in teaching Business and Medical English.
Assistant Director of Studies
Kasia Malkowska
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Cambridge Dip RSA – Head of English
Noel Ensoll
Noel has the diploma in teaching English as a Foreign Language and has extensive experience in TEFL. Noel has been teaching for 12 years. He has taught Business English for the British Council in Tokyo. He has been employed as an Assistant Director of Studies. He is a member of the English Speaking Union and coordinator for the National School Public Speaking competition. Noel was previously trained as an IELTS examiner.
Teacher
Michelle Brown
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Part time Teacher – RSA TEFL
Virginia D B De Costa
Virginia has worked as a TEFL teacher since 1982, prior to this she worked as a French teacher and a translator with UN agencies in the UK and Africa. Virginia speaks fluent French, Spanish and Italian. She also has a working knowledge of German. Virginia works part time at the school and is a wonderful teacher to have.
Teacher
Oliver Schiefer
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Teacher
Georgia Hurley
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Maintenance
Suleyman Erdogan
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MA,TESOL – Teacher Trainer
Giulia Revelli
Born and raised bilingual, Giulia has over 17 years of teaching experience both in the UK and abroad. Giulia has got CELTA, DELTA and a Master’s Degree and has worked for many language and state schools, covering different roles from EFL Teacher to Teacher Trainer, Assistant Director of Studies and Director of Studies. Giulia has a passion for foreign languages and travelling. She enjoys doing sport, playing guitar, reading books and hosting dinner parties for friends and family.
Student Services Manager
Verity Sessions
Verity joined our school in June 2011, having spent the previous four years hosting students from all over the world. She has spent many years living and working overseas in the fashion business setting up quality control departments and dealing with ethical trade audits. Verity has lived and worked in many countries including Vietnam, Thailand, and India. Verity has qualified in Student Service Management, a Specialist safeguarding Lead level 3 Prevent, First Aid and mental health programmes. Verity is also in charge of administration, travel, and overseas the running of the accommodation department. In her spare time, she has recently qualified as an accredited mentor for the Young Lives Foundation, volunteering with U18.
Accommodation Officer
Joanna Galek
Joanna joined our school as Accommodation Officer in January 2020. She has a diploma in Finance from Higher School of Banking and over 7+ years office experience. Joanna has spent the last year training in all aspects of accommodation both homestay and residential including managing our quarantine residential for all students. she is currently qualified in Safeguarding Level 3 with Kent and Medway safeguarding board.
Originally from Poland, living in England for last 15 years.
Joanna is very family orientated, loves spending time altogether and likes to be out and about. She loves photography and traveling whenever she can. She played handball nationally in Poland for more than 10 years.
Marketing Director & School Founder – RSA Diploma
Joanna Sessions
Joanna is a diploma-qualified teacher with more than 20 years’ experience teaching English. She has worked in London, Oxford, Mexico, Spain and the UK. Before starting LanguageUK, she worked as an Academic Manager, Head of Teacher Recruitment and Manager of the Advanced English department. In addition to being experienced in teacher training, she has also been an examiner for the Cambridge First Certificate (FCE) and IELTS. Joanna has managed LanguageUK since 2008
Sales and Marketing
Jonathan Allan
Jonathan has spent the last 17 years working in the International Education sector both as an English Teacher in Brazil and Chile, School Principal and in various International Sales and Marketing roles for accredited language schools. Jonathan started his career as an EFL teacher in Brazil where he set up his own language school and is fluent in Brazilian Portuguese.
Sales & Marketing / Teacher – MA, CELTA, DELTA
Csili Szajko
Csili (Chili) is a Masters, CELTA and DELTA trained teacher with 14 years of teaching experience in Europe, North and Central America. She has been working in student recruitment and marketing with other prestigious schools for the past 4 years. She’s also a Cambridge examiner and an OET interlocutor. Her passions are travelling the world, baking and dancing salsa.
Digital Marketing Assistant
Max Mannouch
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Accreditation and Academic Consultant
Ece INAN
Principal
Kerem ŞAHİN
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“ Wherever you come from, the ability to speak English opens up a huge range of opportunities for you, whether those opportunities are at work, for travel and leisure, for further education, or just for fun.”