FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about the IEFC programme, admissions, and studying with AIPC.
The IEFC is AIPC's English programme — its only one — structured as six CEFR-aligned levels (A1 through C2), each carrying 10 modules, 20 AIPC Credits and a Total Qualification Time of 200 hours. The full programme is 120 AIPC Credits and 1,200 hours. Total qualification time is a design figure, not a measurement — it is the workload the curriculum was built to, and how many months it takes depends on the hours you can give it each week.
Yes, entirely. AIPC delivers the IEFC through a digital campus — staged lessons, the Listening Lab, assignments marked by a person, and your own academic record — so students anywhere in the world can enrol without relocating. Live classes are designed and have not yet run, because no cohort has been taught, and the recorded audio for the listening work has not been produced. Both are stated rather than implied.
No. Every applicant completes a short placement assessment during admissions, and is placed at the level that matches their current English ability — from Foundation through Advanced.
The full six-level programme is $19,000, or $3,166.67 per level. You can pay in full, per level, or split a level’s fee into four equal instalments — equal because no evidence-based cadence policy has been set, and available on request. See Tuition & Fees for the three arrangements.
Yes. IELTS, TOEFL and Cambridge English preparation are built into the curriculum, particularly from the Upper Intermediate level onward, alongside academic and business English.
School pupils, secondary and university students, working professionals, government employees, business executives, and international students preparing for study abroad or advanced English proficiency.
A digital transcript is issued after every level. The IEFC certificate itself cannot yet be conferred: the award requires an External Examiner, and none has been appointed. When conferral begins, a digital certificate follows successful completion of the full IEFC, with printed copies and verification as optional services.
No. The College holds no accreditation and no external quality-assurance affiliation today. The Institutional Status page states what exists and what does not, and it will say something different only when something is genuinely different.
Complete the online application on the Admissions page with your name, email and country of residence — a short self-assessment first suggests your likely starting level. See Admissions for the full five-step journey.
Admissions Questions
The questions applicants actually ask.
Collected from the admissions pages rather than invented for symmetry, and answered with the same directness they are asked with.
Applying
Getting in.
No. There is no academic entry requirement of any kind. Level I begins at A1 and assumes no usable English. See Entry requirements.
No. A placement assessment after you apply confirms which of the six levels you enter. The self-assessment on the Admissions page is your own estimate and binds nobody.
No. Applying costs nothing and requires no documents.
The College commits to making contact about placement within three working days. That is a commitment rather than a measured average — AIPC has not processed applications at volume, and saying otherwise would be inventing a statistic.
Write to Admissions rather than using the form. The College has not adopted a safeguarding policy or appointed a Safeguarding Lead, and until it has, applications from under-18s are handled individually with a parent or guardian rather than processed as routine.
Money
Fees, payment and refunds.
$19,000 for the full six-level programme, or $3,166.67 per level. Full breakdown at Tuition & Fees.
Fees are set and charged in US dollars. Your bank or card issuer converts at its own rate. The College does not publish local-currency prices because it has not fixed rates behind them, and a published price that changes without notice is not a price.
Yes. Nigerian applicants are routed to Nigerian payment providers ahead of international card gateways, precisely because several international gateways do not work for Nigerian cards or merchants. If a method is not yet showing at checkout, write to Admissions and pay by transfer.
There is no adopted refund policy. Requests are decided case by case by the founding team, in writing, and the decision is recorded. That is a weaker guarantee than a published policy, which is why it is stated here rather than discovered later. If certainty matters to you, pay level by level rather than in full.
No scheme is open, no fund is allocated and no scholarship has been awarded. The mechanism to record one exists; the policy does not. See Scholarships.
Studying
What it is actually like.
Yes, everywhere. There is no teaching campus. “London Campus” identifies the administrative headquarters, and nobody attends it.
Your material is available the day you enrol. There is no intake date and no term to wait for. The recurring live timetable is not yet running — see Dates.
Each level is designed at 200 total qualification hours, 1,200 across all six. How many months that is depends on the hours you can give it each week. The College publishes the hours rather than a number of months it cannot stand behind.
A device that plays video, a connection that carries audio, and a microphone — the last because the Listening Lab asks you to record yourself so that change over months can be heard. A phone microphone is sufficient.
A transcript is issued after each level. The IEFC award itself cannot yet be conferred: no External Examiner has been appointed, and conferring an award without external examining would make the award worth less, not more. See Quality assurance.
The College
The questions with uncomfortable answers.
No. The College holds no accreditation and no external quality-assurance affiliation. It is stated on every page where it is relevant rather than once in a footnote, and it will be stated differently only when it is genuinely different.
None. No cohort has been taught and no award has been conferred. The College publishes no student numbers, completion rates or graduate outcomes because it has none to publish.
No, and you should not plan on it. What is currently recognised for those purposes is IELTS, TOEFL or Cambridge — all of which the upper levels prepare for directly. The College would rather tell you that than take your money on a misunderstanding.
A complete, inspectable programme: six levels, sixty modules, every lesson planned stage by stage, every assessment written with published criteria, and a published set of volumes covering the curriculum, the assessment scheme and the teaching. All of it can be examined before you pay a penny, which is more than most language providers offer.