How to join the International English Fluency Course.
A clear, five-step journey from enquiry to your first module — designed for school pupils, university students, working professionals and international applicants alike.
Designed for ambitious learners, at every stage.
Which statement sounds most like you today?
A 30-second self-assessment to guide your application — not the official placement test, which happens during Step 3.
Five steps to enrolment.
- 01Enquire & choose your entry point — tell us your current English level and goals.
- 02Submit your application — the form below. Nothing else is asked for at this stage: no documents, no fee.
- 03Placement assessment — a short assessment confirms your correct starting level, Foundation through Advanced.
- 04Offer & enrolment — receive your offer, confirm your payment plan, and secure your place.
- 05Orientation & your first module — onboarding to the digital campus, then Level I opens and the first module is yours to begin.
Step 2: submit your application.
This connects directly to Admissions. If our online application system is briefly unreachable, your details open in your email app instead — either way, nothing you've entered is lost.
Five stages, and what each one really is.
The application record moves through a fixed set of states, and the state it is in is the honest answer to “where is my application?”. Those states are listed here in the order they occur.
| Stage | What happens | Who does it | Application state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Estimate your level | A one-question self-assessment on the Admissions page suggests a starting level. It is not the placement decision and it binds nobody, including you. | You, in about thirty seconds | — |
| 2 · Submit the form | Name, email address and country of residence, plus the self-assessed level if you took the estimate. Nothing else is asked for at this point — no documents, no fee. | You. The record is created immediately and you are emailed a confirmation. | submitted |
| 3 · Placement | A conversation and a short assessment to confirm which of the six levels you should enter. There is no automated placement test on this site; a member of the founding team arranges this with you by email. | A person, not the platform | placement_pending |
| 4 · Offer | A written offer naming your confirmed entry level, the fee for it, and the payment options open to you. | Admissions | offer_sent → accepted |
| 5 · Enrolment | Payment is confirmed, an account is created, and your enrolment for that level begins. Your first lesson is available the same day. | You and the platform together | enrolled |
An application can also end at withdrawn or
rejected. Both are states the College records rather than deletes, so that a
decision can be looked up later by whoever made it.
How long each stage takes, honestly stated.
AIPC has processed no applications at volume, so these are commitments rather than measured averages, and they are described that way.
Submission
The record is created and the confirmation email is sent while you are still on the page. If the online form cannot be reached, it hands your details to your email application instead, so nothing is lost.
Placement contact within three working days
A commitment the College is making, not an average it has measured. If it is missed, write to Admissions and say so — a stated commitment that goes unenforced is worse than none.
Offer to enrolment
An offer does not expire on a timetable, because there is no intake to fill. Take the time you need; nothing is lost by waiting and nothing is gained by hurrying.
You can look it up yourself.
Keep the application id
The confirmation email carries an identifier beginning app_. It is the only key to your record, and it is deliberately the only key — the College will not disclose an application state to anyone who does not hold it, including someone who knows your email address.
Status without signing in
You do not have an account at application stage — one is created at enrolment. So status is looked up by reference, not by login, and returns the state and the date it was created. Nothing else.
AIPC holds no accreditation. No External Examiner has been appointed, so no award has been conferred on anyone. No cohort has yet been taught. And no refund policy has been adopted — see Refunds, which says so plainly rather than leaving you to discover it. The full institutional position is at About · Institutional Status.
There is no qualification to hold.
Level I begins at A1 — the assumption is no usable English, not some English. A prior certificate is welcome as evidence and is never a condition.
A school-leaving certificate
The College does not ask for one, does not check one, and does not price differently for one. A language programme that gated entry on schooling would be excluding exactly the learners Level I was written for.
An IELTS or TOEFL score
If you hold one, bring it — it shortens the placement conversation considerably. It is evidence, not a requirement, and a score that is more than two years old is treated as a starting hypothesis rather than a fact.
An honest placement
The single genuine requirement. Entering at the wrong level is the most common way a language programme fails a learner, and it fails them in both directions: too low is insulting and too high is silent drowning.
How the entry level is decided.
Two things happen, in this order, and only the second one counts.
- 01Your own estimate. One question, six statements, thirty seconds. It exists so you can apply with a sense of where you are, and it is recorded on your application as a self-assessment — explicitly non-binding.
- 02The placement assessment. A short assessment and a conversation with a member of the founding team, arranged by email after you apply. It produces the level you actually enter. There is no automated placement test on this site, and describing one would be describing software that does not exist.
Say so in the first two weeks. A placement is a judgement made on limited evidence, and the evidence improves the moment you start studying. Moving a learner early costs the College nothing and saves them a term of the wrong material.
What you need to actually study.
Each of these is listed because a specific part of the programme uses it, not because a requirements list looks thorough.
A computer, tablet or phone
The learning platform runs in a browser. There is nothing to install and no minimum specification worth publishing — if it can play video, it can run the programme.
Enough to stream audio
Listening work is the spine of every level, so audio has to arrive. Video calls for live sessions want more; audio-only participation is accepted when a connection will not carry video, and that is a stated accommodation rather than a workaround.
Any microphone
The Listening Lab asks you to record yourself and keeps the recordings so you and your teacher can hear the change over months. A phone or a laptop microphone is sufficient. This is the one requirement people are surprised by, which is why it is here rather than in a footnote.
An address you read
Placement, offer and enrolment all move by email. It is the only channel the College currently relies on.
Applicants under 18 — an unresolved question.
AIPC has published a target audience that includes school pupils. It has not yet adopted a safeguarding policy or appointed a named Safeguarding Lead, and both are prerequisites for teaching anyone under 18 responsibly. Until they exist, an application from someone under 18 is handled individually by the founding team in correspondence with a parent or guardian rather than processed as routine. This is recorded as an outstanding institutional decision, not presented as a policy.
Safeguarding is not a website decision
A safeguarding policy that appeared on a marketing page without a named person accountable for it would be worse than none, because it would look like an answer. The decision belongs to the Academic Senate and the Executive.
No policy, no appointed lead
Both are listed in the College’s own appointments schedule as posts that must be filled. The honest consequence is stated above rather than left for an applicant to discover.
Admission is continuous.
This is not a marketing choice. It is what the platform actually does, and describing anything else would describe software that does not exist.
Level I opens immediately
A confirmed payment creates your enrolment and the first lesson is available the same day. Nothing is held back until a start date.
Progression is per learner
Your progress record is yours alone. There is no class moving ahead of you and none waiting for you, and no lesson unlocks on a date.
The next level opens when this one closes
Levels II to VI are added as each preceding level is completed, whether you paid per level or for the whole programme. Completion is confirmed by a member of staff, not calculated automatically — the College has no automated grading engine.
Because the decision behind them has not been taken.
A calendar is not a formatting exercise. It encodes an operating model, and the College has not yet chosen which model it is.
Rolling and self-paced
What runs today. Nobody waits to start. The known weakness is completion: wholly self-paced language study finishes badly, for the well-understood reason that there is never anything to be late for.
Fixed cohorts and termly intakes
The structure that makes people finish — shared pace, live classes where everyone is at the same point, a graduation that means something. The cost is an applicant in October waiting until January, and it would require rebuilding how progression works.
Rolling entry, fixed rhythm
Study self-paced, but with live sessions, examination windows and orientation on a published recurring schedule you join at the next occurrence. This is what the College has drafted as a recommendation. It has not been adopted.
Everything you study is available on enrolment and paced by you. The recurring live timetable described in Option C does not yet run. The College’s own status page lists the academic calendar and first-cohort start date as outstanding, and this page does not contradict it.
A design figure, not a measurement.
Total qualification hours per level
The designed workload for one level, covering taught material, independent study, practice and assessment. It is the figure the curriculum was built to, and it has not yet been measured against real learners because there have not been any.
Across all six levels
The sum of the six. How long that takes in calendar months depends entirely on the hours a week you can give it, which is why the College publishes the hours rather than a number of months it cannot stand behind.
An administrative headquarters, not a place you attend.
This is stated first because the name invites exactly one wrong assumption, and it is an expensive one to make.
An administrative address
London identifies where the College is administered and managed from. The registered address is being finalised and will be published here when it is settled — not before.
A teaching campus
There are no classrooms, no lecture theatres and no student accommodation. Nobody attends AIPC in London or anywhere else, and no student has ever been asked to.
No relocation, no visa
You study from where you live. See Visas and study permits, which exists to say clearly that the College issues no immigration documents.
How a programme with no campus handles being everywhere at once.
The taught material
Lessons, exercises, listening work and assignments are studied when you can study them. This is the majority of the programme by time, and it has no schedule attached to it at all.
Live sessions
Conversation practice and tutorials are live, which means somebody’s evening is somebody else’s morning. Live sessions are scheduled against where students actually are once there are students; publishing a fixed timetable now would be publishing a guess. Recordings are the standing fallback and are not treated as a lesser option.
No cohort has yet been taught, so no live timetable has been proven against real student locations. What is described here is the design. The first cohort’s experience will change it, and the change will be published.
English throughout, with one exception.
Conducted in English from Level I
Including at A1, where it is done with heavy support — visual, repetition, restricted language, and a teacher who slows down rather than translates. Teaching a language through the language is a method, not an obstacle, and Level I was written on that assumption.
Available in Arabic
The public site is published in English and Arabic. The teaching itself is not translated: a translated lesson would be a different lesson, and the pronunciation and listening work in particular cannot survive translation.
Stated without qualification.
The College is not a licensed student sponsor. It issues no Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies, no visa letter, no immigration attestation and no document that any immigration authority accepts as the basis of a study visa. It does not offer, and will not offer, assistance with immigration applications. Nothing on any other page of this site should be read as qualifying that.
Because it teaches online
Study visas exist to permit physical presence for study. The IEFC involves no physical presence anywhere — there is no campus to attend. A visa is not withheld; it is simply not part of what this programme is.
You study from home
Wherever you live, you study there. No travel, no accommodation, no relocation cost, and no immigration risk arising from the programme itself.
There is none
Not for any level, any fee arrangement, any nationality, or any sponsor. There is no case in which the College can help, and describing edge cases would only create hope where there is none.
If someone offers you a AIPC visa, they are defrauding you.
Because the College does not have it
AIPC cannot delegate a power it does not hold. Any person or agency offering a AIPC study visa, admission letter for immigration purposes, or “guaranteed” entry to the United Kingdom through this College is making an offer the College could not fulfil itself.
Write to us and tell us
Send it to info@worldwencollege.co.uk. Publishing this warning is worth little if reports of it go nowhere, and a College that hears about a fraud in its name and stays quiet is participating in it.
What the programme can genuinely do for that.
Many applicants come to English study on the way to something else. That is a legitimate reason to be here, and it is worth being precise about what helps.
Build the English a destination requires
The upper levels work directly on academic reading, academic writing, seminar discussion and the discourse of formal argument — the things that make the difference once you have arrived, and which a test score does not guarantee.
Prepare you for the tests that are accepted
IELTS, TOEFL and Cambridge preparation are built into the curriculum from Upper Intermediate onwards. Those tests, not this College’s certificate, are what admitting institutions and immigration systems currently recognise.
Substitute for a recognised qualification
No External Examiner has been appointed and the College holds no accreditation, so the IEFC award should not be relied upon by anyone as an admission or immigration credential. That is the plain position and it will change only when it genuinely changes.