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About us

Grade University is a part of Grade Education Centre (UA007) — a platinum Cambridge Assessment English centre, based in Kyiv, Ukraine.

We have been working with all Cambridge Assessment English exams (YL, Key, Preliminary, First, Advanced, Proficiency) as well as with Cambridge teaching qualifications (TKT all modules, CELTA, DELTA all modules) since 2008.

Alongside with Cambridge qualifications, our Teacher Training Centre conducts webinars, workshops, conferences, and other useful activities for teachers.

The idea

Being in the field of ELT for over 14 years now, we have noticed the need for more opportunities for teachers who seek convenient and up-to-date sources for professional development.

Understanding how fast the world is changing and what difficulties teachers encounter, we thought that the best way to help would be to create…

...an online self-study platform!

In this way, teachers will have access to their courses any day, any time; there is no need to adjust their schedule in order to receive knowledge. So we gathered the best authors we know to create practical and interactive courses for teachers to learn new and advance existing teaching skills.

The values

Expertise

  • 14 years of work and experience in the ELT market of Ukraine
  • 1800+ teachers who have prepared and taken TKT at our exam centre
  • 800+ CELTA graduates
  • 130+ teachers received DELTA certificates with us
  • advanced training programmes for English teachers from Cambridge Assessment English and approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

Innovations

We have created a safe online environment for teachers that will help build on their teaching knowledge and skills by doing interactive bespoke online courses, watching and participating in webinars and workshops from experienced Ukrainian and world-known ELT professionals.

Our digital platform allows you to learn at your own pace on desktop, mobile or tablet.

Access our courses, webinars & workshops from any corner of the world.

Licences

We have been working only in accordance with international teaching and teacher training standards since 2008 when we became partners with Cambridge Assessment English.

Our courses and programmes are approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Quality

100% of our course authors and course tutors hold international teaching qualifications such as CELT-P, CELT-S, IHCYLT, TYLEC, TKT, CELTA, DELTA, TESOL.

All our courses include final assessment based on which we issue a certificate of attendance or a certificate of completion.

Experience and traditions

Together with new approaches and methods, our courses embrace established teaching practices and methods. Those approaches have proved to be sufficiently flexible to make them appropriate for innovative educational thinking and the high-quality development of teaching and learning.

Practicality

All our courses provide teachers with hands-on experience.

Our courses are designed to help you specialise your skills.

The training is interactive, and the task types can be adapted for actual use in the classroom.

All activities, recommendations, and strategies have been tested by our course authors and tutors in their classrooms, and they can be embedded into your personal style of teaching.

The team

Meet people who have been working hard to create this platform and continue doing so by improving and developing it. Only having all these people working together, achieving the goal of creating this project, has made Grade University such a unique and trustworthy platform.

Course Authors & Tutors

Andrii Pigariev

Andrii Pigariev

DOS, CELTA, CELT-P/S Course trainer, International speaking examiner, Conference speaker

Lidia Simak

Lidia Simak

YL DOS, CELTA, CELT-P/S Course trainer, TKT Course creator

YuliaC horna

Yulia Chorna

DELTA Module 1, CELTA certified teacher of General & Business English

Iryna Avalishvili

Iryna Avalishvili

DELTA Module 2, CELTA, CELT-S certified teacher of General, Business & Legal English

Chris Reese

Chris Reese

DELTA Module 1, CELTA, CELT-P/S Course trainer, International speaking examiner

Marketing Department

Anastasiia Polushyna

Anastasiia Polushyna

CMO

Viktoriia Savytska

Viktoriia Savytska

Social Media Specialist

Kateryna Pashchenko

Kateryna Pashchenko

Chief Editor

Viktoriia Tsalpinska

Viktoriia Tsalpinska

Email Marketing Specialist

Yevheniy Zhuk

Yevheniy Zhuk

Videographer

IT Department

Vitalii Kivgila

Vitalii Kivgila

Tech Lead

Maryna Zinchenko

Maryna Zinchenko

Front-End Developer

Andrii Illin

Andrii Illin

Back-End Developer

Yuliia Ponidielnik

Yuliia Ponidielnik

Lead UX

Oleksandr Omelchenko

Oleksandr Omelchenko

UI/UX Designer

Managing team

Oleksii Zinchenko

Oleksii Zinchenko

Сo-Founder, CEO

Maryna Gordiienko

Maryna Gordiienko

Сo-Founder, COO

Andrii Hulias

Andrii Hulias

CPO

Yulia Chorna

Yulia Chorna

Project Manager

Contact us

Any questions left? Need help using our online platform? Just contact us any time.

support@grade.university partnership@grade.university

Provost & East Buiding, 145 City Rd, London EC1V 1AW

+44 20 4577 3599

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