Alpha is located in city centre, within a 5 minute walk of most bus and train services from the areas in which our host families live. We are also a few minutes walk away from the main shopping areas, cinemas, bars, restaurants, theatres and galleries.

Alpha College is approved by ACELS. ACELS assures the quality of English Language Teaching in Ireland on behalf of the Department of Education and Science by imposing comprehensive guidelines to ensure the provision of a quality service to students and the implementation of a rigorous inspection scheme.

Our homestay families are visited and monitored on a regular basis. Once the basic accommodation requirements are met they are then chosen on the basis of their friendliness and interest in welcoming students into their homes and trying their best to provide them with a “home from home” while they are studying in Alpha.

Several of the managers and staff in Alpha College have been working with us for more than 10 years and a number of others between 5 and 10 years. They are committed to providing the best possible service to our students and to ongoing improvement of the services we offer.

Quality

In Alpha College of English we value the quality of everything that we do so much that we have put enormous time, effort and financial investment into all of our activities to enable us to qualify for membership of EAQUALS – the European Association of Quality Language Services and ISO 9001:2000 accreditation as well as being recognised by the Irish Department of Education (ACELS)  as an English Language School.