Meet the Team – Specialist Language Courses

The senior team at SLC has over 100 years’ combined industry experience

Teaching English to professionals
Creating online self-study and blended language training programmes
Designing bespoke language courses for companies and organisations
Organising international language training programmes
Writing language learning materials, including world-renowned course books
English language exam preparation, writing and marking
Leading and managing English language schools
Training English teachers around the world

Chris Moore

Managing Director

Chris Moore

Managing Director

Chris works on SLC’s strategic direction, product development, course design and key partnerships with organisations including Health Education England, NHS Trusts and medical universities worldwide. He ensures that the work SLC does with healthcare professionals and students has a significant and lasting impact on patient care, medical research and international projects.

Chris has worked in specialist English language training since graduating from Cambridge University in 1989 in teaching, academic management and commercial roles. In 2012, he founded SLC to provide training and resources to those who need to communicate in English in critical environments, using technology to reach learners around the world.

Chris is also Trustee for Eaquals, the world’s leading international accreditation body for language teaching.

Peter Rodway

Director

Peter Rodway

Director

Peter works with NHS England, NHS Trusts, CCGs and international partners to create and deliver English language training that enables overseas doctors and nurse to pass the OET and IELTS tests they need to work in the UK, so helping alleviate unprecedented staff shortages and ensuring patients and their families get the support they need.

Peter has worked for over 15 years in English teaching, teacher training, school management and commercial director roles. He founded SLC in 2012 to use his experience to bring high quality, impactful, technology-enhanced training to those sectors where effective communication is critical.

Paul Alexander

Chairman

Paul Alexander

Chairman

Paul founded the company with Chris and Peter in 2012. He saw the opportunity to provide targeted, specialist language training to sectors where communicating effectively in English is crucial. He saw how technology-based approaches, using online classrooms and the publishing of online materials would enable SLC to have greater reach and impact than that provided by others.

When not ensuring Chris and Peter are steering SLC effectively, Paul runs a high-impact strategic negotiation consultancy, using the principles and approaches he developed while working as a senior negotiator at Google.

Bethan Edwards

Academic Director

Bethan Edwards

Academic Director

Bethan ensures the courses SLC delivers are of the highest quality. She works directly with healthcare clients to design, deliver and monitor highly effective targeted OET and IELTS training to nurses, doctors and healthcare students. She trains SLC’s teachers to get the best out of online classrooms and to give test preparation courses that get hugely impressive results.

Bethan has a wide range of experience, having taught at schools and universities, trained teachers, written courses and materials, run assessment projects, and managed schools for many years before joining SLC in 2016.

With Bethan at the helm, it is no surprise that SLC’s pass rates for nurses and doctors are among the best – if not the best – in the UK.

Jo Langford

Senior Teacher

Jo Langford

Senior Teacher

Jo is a brilliant teacher, teacher trainer, materials writer and course designer. Since joining SLC in 2016, she has taught hundreds of nurses and doctors from around the world to pass the OET and IELTS tests, so enabling them to register and work in English speaking countries. Jo works with Bethan to train teachers and develop SLC’s learning materials and classroom methodology.

“My teacher is prepared, punctual and willing. Great feedback, great advice, great communication skills.”

“I want to thank Ms. Jo Langford our SLC teacher for the online course she conducted. Ms. Langford worked hard to meet our individual exam needs which eventually led to me passing the exam with high scores.”

Diana Izu

Programme Manager

Diana Izu

Programme Manager

Diana and her team make sure that SLC training programmes are delivered on time, are tracked and reported on, and any problems are dealt with quickly and effectively. Our clients and partners, including NHS Trusts, medical universities and healthcare recruitment companies, all benefit from her attention to detail and relentless focus on providing fantastic service.

Diana’s background as a Spanish teacher and her many years of experience arranging complex training programmes to companies, schools, universities and individuals are reflected in the consistently excellent work she has done since joining SLC in 2015.

Jo Pimm-Smith

Customer Service

Jo Pimm-Smith

Customer Service

Jo leads SLC’s customer service and is a familiar voice to anyone calling about their courses. Her friendly, professional approach and ability to listen to and understand our customers from around the world ensure that the right information is given, questions are answered and problems are solved quickly and effectively.

Jo is also a technical whizz on the course platform, reports to organisations on how their students are doing and constantly works to improve on how we work with our many students.

Carina Morante

Marketing Manager

Carina Morante

Marketing Manager

Carina leads SLC’s marketing campaigns, making sure that our customers – current and future – really understand what SLC offers and how we work to deliver outstanding training programmes and online course materials to our global client base.

Carina has a Masters degree in Neuromarketing and is an all round genius when it comes to digital, design, video production and social.

Virginia Allum

Head of Medical English

Virginia Allum

Head of Medical English

SLC is privileged to have Virginia on the team. An internationally renowned Medical English and OET writer and trainer, Virginia is our lead writer for SLC’s clinical English and OET preparation courses. These courses have been studied by thousands of healthcare professionals and students from around the world with consistently excellent feedback, and Virginia works hard to make sure they are always up to date and fantastic value.

In addition to being a world-class writer, Virginia is a Registered Nurse with years of clinical experience behind her and has also written extensively for Cambridge University Press and OET.

Sara Harden

Editor

Sara Harden

Editor

Sara makes sure SLC’s online courses and associated teachers guides are the best they can be. Her fantastic eye for detail means that the courses are well-designed, consistent and easy for learners to follow.

Before working for SLC, Sara refined her editing skills for industry giants such as Cambridge University Press and Kaplan. Sara is also an experienced education technologist and teacher, making her the perfect fit for SLC’s ground-breaking online clinical English, OET and IELTS preparation courses.

Jack

Jack

Jack makes regular appearances at SLC’s Head Office, bringing a ray of canine sunshine with him whenever he does. He is great at lifting everyone’s spirits and making sure we’re all at the top of our game!

SLC Teachers

SLC’s teachers are all qualified, experienced specialist English language teachers. Many are examiners too.
Meet some of them here.

Alexia

Alexia

Alexia is a highly experienced DELTA-qualified English language teacher and teacher trainer. She has extensive international and online teaching experience. Alexia specialises in exam preparation, including OET, IELTS and the Cambridge suite, and teaching English for Academic Purposes.

“Very focused on what I needed, she managed to find my weak points and pushed on them to help me get the best out of me. She offered me appropriate advice, was very well prepared and managed to teach me every day something new. Thank you again for everything.”

Andrea

Andrea

Andrea has been teaching English for over 30 years. She specialises in tutoring individuals in exam preparation, academic, business and general English. Andrea designs bespoke courses to meet specific requirements, including achieving high scores in the IELTS test. Andrea has worked as an interpreter and speaks fluent Greek and excellent Italian and German.

“She was perfect in all the details and helped me to perform every single detail. I would just recommend her to everyone else is starting this journey or either is struggling to reach the right score.”

Annelie

Annelie

Annelie has been teaching English for over 20 years, including at schools in China, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Europe, Latin America and the USA. She specialises in exam preparation, including IELTS, TOEFL and the Cambridge suite. She is also an experienced examiner, materials writer and developer, soft skills and personal development coach. Annelie has a degree in French and Russian and also speaks Spanish and Portuguese.

“I was very glad to have an opportunity to study under the guidance of Ms. Annelie Phillips! She is an outstanding English teacher and a friendly, wonderful person at the same time. Thanks to her, my Academic IELTS score reached 7.5. I also managed to get 7.5 in writing, 8.5 in reading and 8.0 in speaking!”

Annie

Annie

Annie specialises in teaching English for exams (OET, IELTS, Cambridge) and business English, including tailored in-house courses for companies. She has a Communications, Advertising & Marketing Diploma, working in travel and tourism for many years at director level, and is also a qualified therapist. Annie speaks Spanish and passable French.

“I am glad I met Annie, who is a wonderful teacher and tutor. She made possible for me to get a B in writing on my second exam and to successfully combine my results. I would highly recommend Annie.”

Carolyn

Carolyn

Carolyn is a hugely experienced teacher, specialising in IELTS and OET test preparation, English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific Purposes, including English for Healthcare. She taught for many years at the universities and the British Council before joining SLC. Carolyn has a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics, and is also an examiner, a materials writer, conference presenter and teacher trainer.

“Carolyn was very helpful and honest… She has been an excellent teacher, she gave me the support and the material I needed.”

Claudia

Claudia

Claudia has been teaching English for over 10 years, specialising in academic, business, legal and exam preparation courses. Claudia is also an examiner, translator, proof-reader and materials developer. She has a degree in English and Spanish Language and Linguistics and speaks fluent Italian and Spanish.

“I tell you that I’m very happy with your IELTS course: this is mainly due to my teacher, Prof. Claudia Forshaw. I didn’t know anything about the structure of the IELTS writing test and she explained it to me very well, being very professional on one side and very kind on the other. I would like to have her in the next course I will book.”

Colin

Colin

Colin has been teaching English since 2012. He specialises in preparing students to pass exams, including OET, IELTS and the Cambridge suite. Colin is a dynamic, motivating teacher who gets both excellent feedback and results from his students.

“Colin has been a very good teacher: patient, supportive, precise in giving us good advices about grammar, syntax and pronunciation, and extremely kind and professional.”

Dan

Dan

Dan is a highly experienced DELTA qualified English language teacher and Cambridge-trained examiner with extensive experience of working online and in schools in the UK and eastern Europe. Dan also holds an MA in TESOL. He specialises in teaching exam preparation courses for the IELTS, OET and Cambridge Suite exams, as well as English for Specific Purposes and for Business.

“Daniel is a fabulous teacher! Funny all the time and effective in the way he delivers education. Thank you Dan!”

Helen Louise

Helen Louise

Helen is a highly experienced teacher and examiner. She has taught in Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, as well as online. She has worked extensively providing English tuition and support to migrant and refugee communities. Helen currently teaches on the online English for Employability courses we run for Syrian refugees in Northern Ireland and gets consistently excellent feedback.

Helen

Helen

Helen is a multitalented, multilingual teacher, translator and interpreter, having taught English, Arabic, French and Spanish for many years. Helen works on the online English for Employability courses we run for Syrian refugees in Northern Ireland, teaching absolute beginners, some illiterate in their own language, and getting fantastic results.

Jane

Jane

Jane is a highly experienced DELTA qualified teacher, specialising in designing and delivering exam preparation (IELTS, OET, Cambridge, TOEFL, BULATS), academic and business English courses. She has taught at universities and schools in Italy and the UK and now works primarily online. Jane has an MA in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and speaks French, Italian and German.

“The ‘face to face‘ lessons with Jane were just great. She showed a very motivating way of teaching and was available on short notice to read texts and always gave me a very thoughtful feedback. I achieved a score of 7.5 in writing (increased my previous band score by 1 band); L8, S8.5, R9, Overall 8.5.”

Janella

Janella

Janella has been teaching English for 20 years. She has experience as an examiner, online teacher and medical translator. She specialises in exam preparation and the creation of online courses. She also has an MA in TESOL, has tutored groups and individuals in general and business English and speaks fluent Spanish.

Sian

Sian

Sian has over 15 years’ teaching experience, working both online and in schools in the UK, Spain, Italy, Vietnam and Malaysia. She specialises in exam preparation, including for the OET and IELTS tests. In addition, Sian is a trained examiner and teacher trainer and mentor.

“She is just incredible. You can actually feel how passionate she is regarding her job and she always supported us and helped us individually to improve our weakest areas with tips and advice. I would recommend her to all students. She is remarkable.”

Suzanne

Suzanne

Suzanne’s expertise includes both English language tuition and nursing. She specialises in preparing healthcare professionals to pass OET, which enables her to integrate the insights and knowhow gained during the years she spent as a Registered Nurse in the UK into her lessons.

“All of the methods that our teacher uses are very helpful!”

Tom

Tom

Tom is a highly experienced English language teacher, specialising in exam preparation – including IELTS and OET – as well as teaching bespoke courses for specific purposes including law, finance, technology and the military. Tom is also an experienced writer, editor and proofreader for academic materials.

“Tom taught us about the basic knowledge, strategies and techniques to be used for the tests. His feedback was so helpful that I was able to learn from my own errors on writing, speaking, even in listening and reading…I’m much more confident now than before.”