The English Centre was founded in 1962 by the Extra-Mural Board Stockholm University. Today it is an independent non-profitmaking charitable educational foundation.

Over the years ELC has developed into one of the language schools in the United Kingdom, welcoming adult students from more than 40 different countries each year.

The English Language Centre is situated in Hove, the quiet residential part of the busy and exciting city of Brighton & Hove.

At ELC you will find:

• a friendly and caring atmosphere
• experienced and qualified teachers
• a well-equipped self-study centre
• bright and pleasant classrooms
• a student advisory service
• free internet access
• a student lounge
• a student common room
• a snack bar
• a patio garden
• book sales and travel information

The students can choose the type of the accommodation: a homestay (a single room or a shared one) or a hotels.

ELC can offer the following courses:

• Carefully guided 9-month programmes of study designed to develop your language skills to a high level of fluency
• Intensive General English for short-term, meium-term, and long-term students with 25 or 30 lessons a week
• Combination Courses (it is a combination of 20 intensive general English lessons with additional special subject lessons
• English for Work
• Life & Culture
• Executive English
• Exam & Writing Skills
• One-to-one lessons
• Besides ELC has Examination and Academic Courses designed for students wanting to sit for external examinations in English, or who need English for academic study at university or college.
• Introduction to Business English
• Summer Vacation Courses
• Courses for Teachers of English
• English for Business

ELC organises afternoon or evening social activities. Some of them are free of charge but a small charge may be made for some activities.

After classes and at weekends you can choose full-day excursions to London, Oxford, Stratford upon Avon, Hastings & Rye, etc.