Welcome to the tis Partner's Pages
Information for our Partners
We guarantee that we will always provide the promised courses and services to the very best of our ability and that we will ensure that anyone you send to us will be treated as a valued client.
We offer you a fast and efficient service and aim to support you and your clients to the very best of our ability.
Special Offers are also available at various times.
Keep up with the latest TIS news!
Partner Zone log in - make sure you have your user name and password. If you can't remember it then email judith@tisenglish.co.uk and it will be sent to you again.
TIS Mini-Brochures - developed to save paper, postage, waste and the environment. You may have as many as you would like - just email lynne@tisenglish.co.uk for supplies. and you can also download, print or forward the link here:
TIS is a founder member of TEN - The English Network
A network of 10 long established, independent schools in England who believe in working together, trusting each other and of course recommending each other because we all have a the same high standards.
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From left to right: Clive Barrow BEET Bournemouth, Judy Loren Excel English London, Richard Day English in Chester, Jane Dancaster Wimbledon School of English London, John Barnett Cambridge Academy of English, Graham White Eastbourne School of English, Phil Hopkins English Language Centre Brighton, Judith Hands TIS, John Duncan English Language Centre Bristol - this missing character is Graham Simpson from Oxford English Centre.
Click on the logo below for our website and links to each school.
Torquay might just be the Friendliest Seaside Resort in the UK!
Torquay has been voted as the Most Group-Friendly UK Destination in the Group Travel Awards. Torquay has been voted into the finals by readers of Group Travel magazine. The awards are an annual celebration of the very best suppliers to the group travel industry and each year readers are asked to vote in various categories, including the highly coveted Most Group-Friendly UK Destination award.
19th May 2010
Peter's Garden
Those of you who knew Peter Clarke will be glad to see this picture of Peter's Garden at TIS. The garden was created and dedicated to his memory in 2007. There is also a beautiful blue Hibiscus to the garden in memory of Mo - a great teacher, a great actress and a dear friend.
Photos of Peter and Mo by Judith Hands and John Miles
Become a TIS Partner
We have many Partners around the world and we are always pleased to welcome new partners who will accurately promote our courses and work closely with us. If you are an established Language Travel Agent then please fill in our Partner Questionnaire - click here.
Once we have received your Questionnaire we will be able to send you our working conditions. You will also be given able to access to our secure zone.
TIS EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBERS
Evenings and Weekends Emergency Cellphone:
+44 7881 710 395 or from the UK
07881 710 395
Club TIS Emergencies and Arrivals Cellphone :
Int+44 7734 102 816 or from UK 07734 102 816
Our Own Hotel - Club TIS
The Club TIS Hotel Residence opened on 28th March 2009 - this lovely little hotel was well known to many of you as the Everglades. On the retirement of the owners we decided to buy the hotel - it's perfect, virtually opposite the school and offering comfortable bedrooms (some with sea-view) and all with private bathroom or shower room. The hotel has a lovely restaurant leading to a sunny, south facing terrace and delightful, secluded garden. The hotel also has Club TIS Café which is open for all students at lunchtime on weekdays. The café has a great menu to suit all tastes and diets and pockets. Prices for the home-cooked food range from £3.50 for soup and a roll, £4.00 for a salad and £5 - £6 for hot dishes. Feedback on the lunches is "delicious food". All diets are catered for, with an emphasis on vegetarian, Halal and Kosher restrictions.
The Business English UK Fam Trip 2009
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A happy group of Language Travel Agents visited TIS on Friday 11th September 2009 for a tour of the school followed by dinner at the Club TIS Hotel and we had a very jolly time together. The agents from left to right are: Ekaterina Asinova - Studyline, Olga Kiseleva - Study Tour, Sergey Alyoshin - Petro Lingua, Karen Kurzmeyer - Small World, Ksenia Lipanova - Hartford Partners, Barbro Kjellson - alta, Elena Tatarchuk - Language Link, Emilie Verot - Languages and Travel, Karel Melzmuf - English Language Consultancy, Andrea Nagy - Katedra and kneeling are: Caroline Martin - Formalangues and Alena Aichlamanova - Channel Crossings.
Some of you have already sent new bookings to us and we thank you very much for your confidence in TIS.
Agent Workshops:
Our next workshop will be :
IALC Toronto hosted by Tamwood Language Centres
TIS Trivia - Did you know.......?
Did you know that TIS once belonged to SAS - the Swedish Airline.
SAS used to have a subsidiary (or daughter company) called Vingresor - a holiday company. And in turn Vingresor had a another daughter company called SIS which was a major player in the language travel market for young students. In 1972 they bought a beautiful villa in Torquay and converted it into offices and a school for mature students and that school grew into TIS. In 1976 Jan Karlsson (Scandinavians will know this former airline god) and the SAS board decided to sell all of SIS to a major competitor known also by its initials.... - I'm sure you can guess! They weren't so interested in the little school called TIS and so we employees clubbed together and bought TIS from EF immediately the transfer took place. It was known then as the first Management Buyout in the language travel industry - I know because I was one of those courageous employees.
So it was Swedes that founded this school of English down here in Devon. Our staff were trained by Swedes and I have to say they were wonderful. They had such high standards and a true belief in looking after the client in every little way - we still follow that doctrine now and we still maintain the red and white colours that SAS / SIS gave us. I have always been very grateful that Jan Karlson decided to sell SIS and that we were able to buy our small part of it.
I am happy to say we are still great friends with some of those former SIS staff, not just in Sweden but around the world.
Judith Hands
with thanks to
Solbritt Ericsson - Torsten Akerberg - Eva Bonholm - Margareta Garellick - Stig and the many other Swedes we used to work with.
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