About
See also: Staff History and Management.
Authority Derived from Experience:
Reputation Derived from Quality
专业铸就权威，质量造就品质
Aihua is the culmination of the efforts of the people who have worked together here. A vibrant hybrid culture has been transmitted down through generations of our staff, and been developed in turn by new members of staff. Our teachers learn from Aihua, and Aihua in turn learns from its teachers.
Aihua Foreign Languages Academy was founded on January 2nd, 2002, by Dr David Cotter, Ms Chen Xi, and Swan Training Institute, Dublin. On April 25, 2002, we received licensing to teach English in Shijingshan from the Shijingshan Education Committee. On the 10th of May, 2002, we opened our first classes. On the 1st of September, 2003, we received licensing to hire foreign teachers from the Beijing Education Committee and the Beijing Foreign Affairs Office. We started operations in ZhongChuDasha building, next to the north exit of Bajiao subway station. In 2004 we moved to our present location in Gucheng Nanli. In March 2009, we opened a second centre in Changyin Building, Haidian district, Beijing. In September 2010, we opened a in the Zhongguancun district of Beijing.
We have run an English competition for the students in our district each year since 2002. These competitions have each had between 2 and 3 thousand contestants. In 2006 and 2007 and 2010 we sent small groups of our students to Ireland for summer camp. We will continue to run this summer camp in Ireland.
At present, we teach a total of 2781 students. We teach 1493 students in our offsite programs, 764 students at our Gucheng branch, 384 students at our Changyin branch and 140 students at our Zhongguancun branch.