Learn with IH Abroad

International House schools around the world are the home of language teaching and as more Saudis choose to study English outside the Kingdom, the IH network of schools offers a vast range of learning options.

Discover new cultures, make friends, and broaden your horizons from courses in the world’s most vibrant Western cities like London to culturally diverse locations in Asia and the beautiful countryside near IH Aberdeen. IH is proud to offer study abroad options in over 50 locations. Saudi learners can now attend General English programs at affordable prices, summer camps, and exam preparation courses along with much else. There are also a variety of accommodation options available to ensure that your stay isn’t just comfortable, but is part of your wider cultural and learning experience.

The IH placing service offered by IH Saudi Arabia will also process visas to those countries where visas are required while taking care of your individual travel arrangements.

To find out more about courses, prices, and accommodation choices at any school within the IH network, contact the IH Saudi Arabia business office in Dhahran for further information.

CELTA Full Time

4 Weeks

CELTA Part-Time

12 Weeks

CELTA Blended

13 Weeks

Corporate Placement Test

 

For over 30 years, IH Saudi Arabia has offered comprehensive English language placement testing services for our corporate clients in the Kingdom.

 

IH Saudi Arabia specializes in providing highly accurate placement test results for major clients such as SABIC, CHEMANOL, SASREF, ARAMCO, TASNEE, SATORP, SEC, SIPCHEM, and hundreds of other companies all over the Kingdom. IH has also processed thousands of tests for HRDF, the Colleges of Excellence Program, and diverse sectors including hospitals, banks, and hotels.

 

The data generated from these IH English language placement tests is then benchmarked to globalized language learning standards so that recruitment specialists can select the best candidates for current job vacancies, identify qualified new hires for initial training programs, or identify any language competency gaps that current employees may need to close before they are fully eligible for promotion. This ensures training efficiency as learners are allocated the precise English level that they need to progress.

 

IH Saudi Arabia offers the most flexible English language placement testing options. These include:

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Distance Placement Testing

Avoid the cost incurred of flying hundreds of job applicants to your company’s site where they then need to be issued gate passes. This service is also highly recommended for shift workers and offshore manpower based on oil rigs or in remote locations.

 

With IH Saudi Arabia’s distance placement testing service, candidates can be tested without ever leaving their homes. The distance placement testing system includes a unique online placement test, an individual writing test, and an oral test on SKYPE ,ZOOM or TEAMS that is administered by a qualified and experienced IH language assessor. The system is both efficient and highly secure with IH candidates subject to ID checks.

 

All candidates must have access to a computer or Laptop with a webcam and stable internet connection.

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Testing at Selected Venues

IH instructors can visit any location in the Kingdom to administer paper based placement tests including a grammar and writing test, a listening test, and an oral test. This option is suitable for testing large numbers of candidates and may often take place over several days.

 

Additionally, all IH English language projects include an inbuilt placement testing service so that when IH instructors work at your site, they are fully trained to manage ongoing placement testing requirements under their normal scope of work.

 

For an entirely free consultation, all corporate clients are invited to contact IH Saudi Arabia for further details and to select the option that works best.

 

All IH placement test results are benchmarked to the Common European Framework.

 

Testing instruments have been designed by our world-class academic partners and internationally validated for use in global industry.

EPIT: A Unique Contribution

 

Over the last quarter of a century, the Educational Projects and Information Technology Portfolio (EPIT) has made an outstanding contribution to full spectrum training in Saudi Arabia, EPIT has proved once again that it is a listening organization that is able to adapt, downsize, and expand into those markets that are increasingly relevant under Vision 2030.

 

EPIT is a 100% Saudi owned company.

Mission

To train and empower young Saudis with the academic, technical, vocational, and language skills that they need to realize their full potential within the Saudi economy.

 

Vision

To apply globalized standards to public-private partnerships in training that make a lasting contribution to supporting Vision 2030.

 

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EPIT's Scope of Work since 1995

  • EPIT has operated the Institute of Industrial Management and Information Technology that trained a generation of young Saudis in the Eastern Province for professions in Marketing, Hospitality Management, Accounting, and MIS.
  • EPIT runs 2 Saudi Private schools (the Al Oloum & Al Maarafah schools with over 700 students) that offer education under the Ministry of Education to hundreds of local boys and girls in Khobar.
  • EPIT manages the International House language teaching network in Saudi Arabia which has trained thousands of Saudis in national industry. IH Saudi Arabia has now taught English for 30 years in the Kingdom.
  • EPIT manages the Gulf House Recruitment Company which is now firmly established in the Eastern Province as a manpower supplier agency.
  • EPIT coordinates international training partnerships that have included such fields as aviation support services, international exams, and hospitality and tourism.
  • EPIT ran a Vocational Skills Technical Workshop in Khobar for 12 years that trained thousands of young HRDF apprentices in areas including welding, pipe maintenance, equipment repairs, culinary preparation, and electrical engineering.
  • EPIT works with local Saudi accreditation agencies like TVTC to coordinate on standards management.
  • EPIT works with government funded projects like HRDF to deliver localized training solutions.
 

An Innovative Organization that Listens

  • EPIT is an innovator in introducing quality standards in language learning, primary school management, higher educational diploma level training, and manpower services.
  • Our continuing success is based on understanding our clients and individual students, our approach based on listening, caring, and evaluating core needs.
  • Since 1995, EPIT's manpower specialization has varied according to market need and has included: a dedicated team of diploma lecturers, language trainers, vocational trainers, safety trainers, primary school teachers, and manpower supply specialists led by the EPIT management team who select only the best in their field and supervise both internal training and personal development.
  • EPIT employs English language teachers, teaching staff at the two private schools that EPIT runs, and a permanent recruitment management team working for Gulf House Recruitment Agency.
  • As the education and training sector evolves in Saudi Arabia, EPIT is focusing on a future where it employs more Saudi trainers and academics to offer wholly new services in areas like virtual classes, international teacher training, female education, supplying manpower to Saudi colleges and universities, and running programs in fields related the requirements of industry.