School Description

Reach Out Academy Cairo is Egypt’s leading EFL teacher training centre, and one of the few schools in Egypt offering CELTA (Certificate).Be ready for the unexpected – our innovative courses are carefully designed to foster a friendly, supportive and creative atmosphere, and to push you to become the best teacher you can be. Our CELTA includes a unique teaching module alongside the usual group classes, with opportunities for assessed and unassessed one-to-one teaching. Trainees learn to make effective use of the latest teaching technology, and we provide careers guidance and support for job applications, during and after the CELTA course.

Reach Out Academy Cairo boasts one of the best-equipped and most beautiful teacher training suites in Egypt, with the center centrally located in cosmopolitan Cairo, a lounge and kitchen area, a specialist library with dedicated printing and copying facilities, a study area with Apple Computers, and separate classrooms for teaching practice. Trainers are always on hand in the training suite.

Help with Employment

We provide guidance on finding jobs and the broad range of career opportunities and specialisations that exist within ELT. Reach Out Academy recruit strong candidates directly from our CELTA courses to work in both our year-round adult schools and Young Learner Programs, and once you’re part of the Reach Out family, there are numerous career paths for English language teachers.

Accommodation

We provide contacts with hotels, apartment hotels and student accommodation near the CELTA centre who have offered us special rates during our courses. Please inform us when you register for the course that you would like information about accommodation options.

Refund Policy

In the case of cancellation four weeks or more before the course starting date, 20% of our total fee will be retained. With less than two weeks' notice, 50% of our total fee will be retained. If cancellation occurs in the final ten days before the starting date our total fee will be retained.
However, in certain exceptional circumstances we will consider transferring the fees to another course.
No transfer is made if notice is insufficient to allow for the finding of a substitute candidate. In the event of a course being cancelled all fees will be refunded.
NOTE Once the course has started, there is no possible refund. For this reason, you might consider taking out an insurance policy in order to be covered in case anything happen and you needed to leave the course.

Location Overview

Cairo is a place of physical contrast. Along the well-irrigated shoreline, lush vegetation shares the landscape with tall skyscrapers. In the older inland quarters to the east, however, beneath the foothills of the Eastern Desert and the rocky promontories of the Muqaṭṭam Hills and the Al-Jabal al-Aḥmar (Arabic: Red Mountain), browns and ochres are the dominant hues of land and buildings.

The city juxtaposes ancient and new, East and West. The Pyramids of Giza, near Memphis, stand at the southwestern edge of the metropolis, and an obelisk in the northeast marks the site of Heliopolis, where Plato once studied; modern landmarks of Western-style high-rise hotels and apartment buildings overlook the Nile River. Between these extremes are other architectural monuments, dating from Roman, Arab, and Turkish times. In addition to department stores, cinemas, hotels, and town houses, Cairo contains a large functioning bazaar and an extensive, semi-walled medieval city endowed with more than 400 registered historic monuments—including mosques, mausoleums, and massive stone gates—dating to 130 CE.