On September 14 British Centre held a press conference on Callan Method and its Legal Aspects in Georgia. The event, attended by local media representatives and led by Tom Lundie, Chief Executive Officer of Callan Publishing and Ellison Jones, leading specialist of Callan School, took place at Courtyard by Marriott hotel. During their visit in Georgia Callan Method Organization (CMO) representatives got informed about Callan Method tuition practice in the country so that to be better prepared for further regulation of legal aspects.

“The primary focus was to see how big the problem in Georgia was. The two main issues that have to be solved include an authorized distribution of Callan books and also an authorized teaching of Callan method,” declared Mr. Lundie.

“The main goal of my visit in Tbilisi was to assess how Callan method is taught in Georgia and at British Centre I would say they teach the method the right way,” stated Ms. Jones. “The method is simple repetition of set phrases and the general aim is to get students talking as soon as possible. The Callan Method helps students at any stage to learn English, teaching them with little or no English up to a level equivalent to the Cambridge First Certificate.”

Mr Robin Callan, the founder of the method, says in a CALLAN PUBLISHING SUES FOR PLAGIARISM AND BREACH OF COPYRIGHT press release on Callan’s official website: “creating the Callan Method and writing the Callan Books has been my life’s work. I find it very distressing to learn from experts that my books have been copied to a material extent that my company is forced to take action to protect and defend a business it has taken me over 50 years to build”.

Today, the Callan Method is taught in approximately 267 schools in 26 countries. The Callan Method School in Oxford Street, London is believed to be the largest single English Language teaching School in the world with over 2,000 students attending lessons every day in the summer months.

British Centre was founded in 2003. The school is an active partner of the London Callan School. Callan Method tuition principles at British Centre are the same as they are in the London Callan School.

“British Centre has been a good partner of CMO and we’re the one and only authorized tuition centre using Callan method in Georgia. The aim of CMO representatives’ visit is to locally get informed about Callan method pros and cons in the country and to further regulate legal aspects,” declared Dali Lomidze, Head of Public Relations British Centre. “What’s most important, we’re committed to prevent people from getting trapped with false Callan method tuition and we need legal security to make it happen.”

In addition, according to Lomidze, British Centre founders and CMO representatives discussed the opportunities for establishing a public school in Georgia where Callan Method will be taught.

Source: The Commercial Times