Are you an Academic looking to translate from French and/or finesse drafts in English of journals, texts and other articles for submission to editors / publication in English. Tonyversity staff have in excess of 40 years of Higher Education experience, both managing and teaching (in addition to their industry careers) writing a vast range of types of documentation: articles for journals and periodicals course documentation virtual documents for online learning modules and other websites industry / academia partnership documents bids for funding to the European Union (ERDF/ESF etc) Tonyversity will draw upon such experience to: translate documentation from the French into an English appropriate to the medium to be used and to the readership. For example, recently Tonyversity has translated various technical journal articles (concerning online learning research) from French into a style of English suited to an higher level readership and expected of articles for submission to editors and peer-review panels of English and American academic journals. Tonyversity will also review existing drafts/ initial ‘translations’ prior to print with a view to ‘catching’ errors that often slip through the net when translations are done by non-industry specialists and non-native English speakers. Tonyversity staff also possess considerable Travel and Tourism industry and teaching experience and are particularly well-versed in reviewing Tourism guides, brochures, customer notices, menus, ‘bedroom browsers’ etc to assure accurate translation. Although Tonyversity will gladly review and correct/enhance documentation, where appropriate, this may also be undertaken as part of a staff training programme using such materials as the basis for English capability development. Tonyversity trainers are British, native English speakers and UK and French university Senior Lecturers in English and Intercultural Management with more than 20 years’ teaching and business management experience. (See ‘About Us’ for further details). The dovetailing of these commercial and education & training experiences makes Tonyversity unique and perfectly placed both to understand your distinctive commercial and personal needs & contexts and to design and deliver effective training responses at the individual and organisational...
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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...
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