Posts made in March, 2009

Are you a company/organisation?

By admin on Mar 26, 2009 in Featured, Who are you |

Are you a company/organisation looking to: 1.  develop higher-level English capabilities for key staff to support your international growth and export aspirations in Anglophone markets … Tonyversity will:– work with you and your staff on a one-to-one or team basis in order to determine critical intercultural and English language learning requirements and how these may be most efficiently, effectively and economically addressed, subject, of course, to constriants such as time and budget. Training programmes will be designed specific to the needs of the organisation and group/individual and may be delivered in situ or at the Tonyversity Office in Bruebach near Mulhouse. Training may be arranged both in and out of office hours and over extended or intensive periods. Such training will be based around the current and anticipated work & projects of the trainees themselves, for example: powerpoint presentations; reports writing; memos and letters; promotional materials; technical specifications, meetings and their management; interviews and interviewing, client sales ‘pitches’; customer relationship-building negotiation etc preparing for living and doing business in Anglophone countries – in fact: any situational context in which you and your staff may be expected to have to ‘perform’ in English. 2. to further develop the management capabilities of your staff as part of a programme of Professional Development delivered in English? Tonyversity will: effectively offer two-for-one added value by combining Management and Professional Development training with further enhancement and application of existing English capability: Acquire and /or enhance higher-level Management knowledge and skills by means of a Professional Development programme taught in English Acquire and /or enhance higher-level English language and inter-cultural capability via a Professional Development Programme built around management functions where staff already possess expertise. After years in management and university/industry level management and English training, Tonyversity strongly believes that learning always takes place more effectively and efficiently (and often very much more quickly and enjoyably) when learners are familiar with and confident in the particular applicational context of their learning. Accordingly Tonyversity does not engage in ‘straight’, traditional, headphone-based, ‘lab’ style language learning, but rather in a one-to-one or small group learning/teaching ‘partnership’, working together on current or forthcoming work-based projects to develop both English and Management capability. 3.  ‘finesse’ its materials to ensure...

By admin on Mar 26, 2009 in About us | 0 comments

Tonyversity is the brainchild of ‘Tony Jolley’: me. Clearly it is a hybrid creation of my forename and the word ‘university’. In short, this is because, at the dawn of the internet age in the early/mid 1990s, before the first simple web-editors were available and hand-coding pages was the norm, I began designing, developing and introducing websites and subsequently ‘virtual learning environments’ for my students of Tourism and Strategic Management at Bournemouth University. The name ‘stuck’ and I am synonymous with it, so in embarking upon my own business it seemed both inevitable and appropriate that I would register the business name and associated domains. The core team is myself (see extensive detail below) plus my wife, Ellen, who is also a native English speaker, Prof. Agrégée in English and University...