Welcome to The Mayfair Education Group

The Mayfair Education Group is a small, independent organisation that started in 1986 with an English Language School in central London. Through partnerships and opportunities to work with overseas agencies over three decades, The Mayfair Education Group has been involved in a range of projects which include provision of training services to multinational oil and gas companies, educational sponsorship of individual students and also an ongoing association with the prestigious Charles Darwin Foundation. Currently, we are in the process of providing a consultancy service to the Ecuadorian Government who want to massively expand their capacity to teach English in state schools in the Galapagos Islands.

From the CEO…

I am very proud to have been at the helm of the school since its inception in 1986. As a young English teacher, with a background in Bio Medical Engineering, I founded the school with a view to growing an organisation that would represent and express my own values, interests and views on global matters.

Naturally, like the school, these have grown and developed over the years but I can confidently say that at the heart of all of my endeavours is the well-being of the world and a deep interest in science, education and the arts. The school has been both a platform and a resource for many interesting projects over the years, some of which I have shared with you on these pages. Finally, I would like to say that where, in our published materials, it states that “we are more than just a school”, I can genuinely say that we really are.

Naeem Ahmad,
CEO, Mayfair Education Group

MSE Meeting Rooms, also part of the Mayfair Education Group, opened on Oxford Street in 2013 and hosts meetings and training days in comfortable, contemporary surroundings in the heart of the capital. With an emphasis on customer care and personal service, clients from small to large organisations, such as Apple, Google, Sony and the Arcadia Group, can enjoy the professionalism and high standards of this independent business hub.

Only metres away from the new Cross Rail station, due to open in 2019, MSE Meeting Rooms is the ideal venue for board meetings, interviews and client presentations in its pleasant, affordable and well-serviced rooms. MSE is trusted by the NHS, Home Office, DEFRA and many other agencies and can offer packages and rates tailored to meet the needs of charities and public sector organisations.

Visit MSE Meeting Rooms

Using MSE Rooms means getting the right room appropriate for our needs, being welcomed with a smile, a clean room prepared on time to the highest standards, staff that go above and beyond whatever our request for the event and who are the friendliest bunch too! Thank you! X

Aleksandra Herbich
Lush

Mayfair School was founded in 1986 and has been delivering high quality English language tuition and welfare services to students from all over the world for more than 30 years. Accredited by the British Council, the school is proud of its high standards, its services to students as well as the scope of its activities over the years.

The school still strives to ensure that every student ‘lives the London experience’ as fully as possible and leaves the school feeling inspired and excited by his or her experience of studying with us. We make sure that all of our students get involved and feel part of the Mayfair community.

We are pleased to say that the school has recently extended its provision to include young learners at the London branch and also at a residential summer camp in Buckinghamshire. This reflects the trends in language learning across the globe as English has become a vital part of everyone’s education, starting almost universally at primary school level.

Visit the Mayfair school of English

When I came to London I was alone and could hardly speak English. In a few months at Mayfair School of English I met lots of people and made many friends thanks especially to the amazing social programme every Friday and my level of English rocketed-two weeks ago I got 7 at the IELTS exam.

Nausica Andaloro
Italy

In 2014, Mayfair School of English organised a painting competition to celebrate the UK and Russia Year of Culture in conjunction with British Council in Moscow. The subject of the competition was ‘Russia Today’. The response was overwhelming and the submissions we received were of a very high standard overall. It was indeed difficult to choose from the 120 submissions we received but we eventually selected three winners and seven runners-up.

The British Council and the school to jointly sponsored the talented winners’ trips to London, providing courses and accommodation. We were delighted to welcome the artists to London where they studied with us and had a wonderful opportunity to see the city and visit the capital’s great art collections.

Subsequently, some of the artists have returned several times to London to exhibit their work and have maintained a firm friendship with the school.

Mayfair School of English has been active in its work to support the conservation work of the Darwin Foundation in the Galapagos Islands since the late nineties. In 2011, CEO Naeem Ahmad attended a charity auction at the Royal Geographical Society where the 5th Edition of “The Origin of Species” was sold in the presence of Sir David Attenborough. MSE then further supported the foundation by sponsoring a teacher to work in the Galapagos Islands for one year. He was also recently elected to the Governing Body of the Charles Darwin Foundation in 2017.

Since then, he has attended various fundraising events and provided consultancy series to the Ecuadorian Government who need to develop their English Language provision in state schools in the Galapagos Islands.

An appeal to raise funds to support victims of the 2016 Earthquake in Ecuador generated £2000 to help those affected by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit Ecuador in decade.

More than 150,000 children were affected and urgently need clean water, life-saving food and health care. Donations were made by Mayfair students as well as the public in Greenwich where Mayfair was supporting the Ecuadorean Embassy in this appeal.

MSE has also recently agreed to sponsor the building of a shelter for turtle egg incubation at the Charles Darwin Research Centre in the Galapagos.

Mayfair Multilingual Services was established in 1986 when it set out to provide linguistic and training solutions of outstanding quality to its customers.

Focusing primarily on the delivery of linguistic solutions for multilingual recruitment needs, Mayfair Multilingual also provided a range of services that included professional translation & interpreting support, CV support and also work experience placements. The company quickly built up a broad client base, serving both local and international companies. It is through its team of experienced consultants and excellent customer service that Mayfair Multilingual built up a database of over 5,000 multilingual candidates with a variety of professional and academic backgrounds and is proud of its accomplishments in the field of recruitment.

Mayfair was involved with the Oil and Gas Industry on a number of projects where bespoke English language courses were designed to meet the language needs of employees of large international companies. Of the many challenges faced by overseas companies with large numbers of technical staff, engineers and managers, one is the need for competence in English and the provision of training to achieve this.

Mayfair worked for a German Oil Company which had a presence in Libya and also for Exon Mobil where we were required to teach all the Italian staff of the largest LNG plant that was about to be built near Venice in Italy. The language training took place at the school in London.

In eight months the students progressed rapidly from preliminary level to advanced level, with competence in the specialist language used for the Oil and Gas industries. When the course began the platforms were being built in Spain and, by the end of the course, the LNG plant was ready for operation by the staff we had trained. Students were independently tested for compliance and all passed and were deemed fit for employment. We attribute this great success to the hard work of both staff and students.