St. Giles International is an

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school group founded in 1955 in

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. Today, St. Giles teaches over 10,000 students and has seven year-round schools and junior summer Centers in the UK, US, and Canada.

History

St. Giles International was incorporated in 1958 by Paul Lindsay and his wife, Diana. Lindsay had trained to be a teacher and began his career teaching English and French to native English speakers at a North London Polytechnic. Seeking to increase his income, Lindsay took on a summer job at an English language school on Oxford Street, London. Noticing the substantial number of foreign students at the school, he decided to establish his own English language school. With savings of £100, Lindsay rented a small room in a backstreet in Soho, London. In 1998, Paul Lindsay retired as Managing Director of St. Giles International, and his son, Mark Lindsay, succeeded him as the current Managing Director.

Schools

St. Giles International has seven year-round English language schools in three countries. They are located in the following destinations: * Canada –

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* UK –

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, London Central, London Highgate, and

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...

* US –

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St. Giles International also operates junior summer courses in North America and England and has year-round schools in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

References

External links

* {{official site, https://www.stgiles-international.com/ Language schools Multinational companies International business