SCI MONTBOISSIER

In June 2022 my colleagues and I attended the professional training for teachers "Interculturalitè and inclusion". During the seminar we learnt in a very professional way about intercultural pedagogical concepts and created and adapt our own concepts presented in a intercultural groups, discussing the situation at school in different EU-countries. The seminar was very enreaching and helpful for every colleague who is working in a multi-cultural context at school and any educational institution. Thank you very much for this wonderful experience, professional and very exciting seminar. The organisation and preparation phase before our stay with you were perfect. The college international has a great opportunity of accommodation and training rooms. It is clean and the atmosphere is amazing. Thank you very much to Dominique, the director Mr Bottin and his whole helpful and wonderful team. Looking forward to organising new seminars for prefessionals with you. Mariya Pachevska, Erasmus+ co-ordinator from Germany

Classes are ok, actually quite good, but rooms are poor and cleaning staff does not do a good job at all. My room was cleande twice in three weeks. When I complained after this long time they told me they had not been able to clean because the room was not tidy enough - they never told me this during the two weeks and I am quite an organized person. When I was there, on my floor two of four common toilets were out of order - for more than a week! And the shower was not cleaned for almost two weeks (I took pictures of body hairs at several places, they remained there for all the time). As for documentation of teaching activities there is no plan of courses or of the campus available, and there are no phone numbers of teachers, which makes communication quite difficult.

Great teachers, I did a "drop in" to an advanced A1. Small class size and excellent teacher, they were 3.5 months in and started from zero French language and today? They can follow the class in it's entirety. I am super impressed and while the majority of the students are college aged, and I have been out of college many, many years, they were incredibly welcoming and fun to be around!

My experience at this language school was nightmarish. The current situation can no longer be compared to the positive reviews. The leadership and management leave a lot to be desired. The teaching is poorly organised, you can feel the problems everywhere. There was neither a friendly welcome nor adequate provision of teaching materials. The methods are very simple and hardly correspond to modern teaching methods in the 21st century. I did not experience the use of videos or audio examples, there was hardly any group work, the teaching was very frontal. In a language course, it is more important that the participants start talking rather than the teacher talking all the time. As for the accommodation, I can only say the worst. The "comfort rooms" resemble prison cells and are only minimally equipped, not a place where one could feel comfortable. There was no cleaning during 8 days, neither shower gel nor soap was provided. The staff seemed overwhelmed and could hardly meet the basic requirements. Not to mention friendliness and a pleasant atmosphere. My only advice is to avoid this place.

During my stay, I had 4 different teachers. That made it pretty hard for me to learn something because the teachers didn't know where we stopped with the one before. During the class, we watched movies and had to draw for hours. Watching a movie can help improve your language skills but I can do that at home. Drawing posters however doesn't improve my french in any way. Some grammar topics were just given to us as worksheets and we had to teach them ourselves. Great teaching! I expected a professional school and ended up being more than disappointed. I can't recommend this school at all.

I am very disappointed at this school. I stayed here for three weeks in august to improve my French for university, sadly that was not the case, and I payed over 2500€ for this!! The classes were unorganized, unstructured and the administration didn’t care if you were put in the right class according to your Level of French. After having complained many times, they still didn’t do anything about it, I repeated the same tasks etc. every week. Not only was the school system horrible, the food at the cafeteria was not worth the money they charged for it. The ladies working at the Cafeteria seemed to always be in a bad mood and were extremely rude, disrespectful and unprofessional. If you don’t book the comfort room, air conditioning is not in the price, these temperatures were unendurable without. Most of the young staff working at the reception were very kind and helpful, the rest was incompetent and didn’t care. My room had not been cleaned a single time during my stay here, I had to specifically ask for towels after two weeks because they didn’t bother to put any in my room. After asking them multiple times to clean the room, I just gave up. I payed lots of money for this experience and I wish I would have chosen a different school. Would not recommend!! The only positive thing here is the location and the people you meet here.

I registered my sister to this school but unfortunately the visa not granted. So I ask them for the refund as they promised me that they will refund the money if I don’t get the visa. It’s been more than a month and try to email them and they only said as soon as possible. I was desperated because it’s not small amount and I have other expenses but they don’t understand. I called them but they responsable won’t accept my call, they said only by email. Since they’re not replying my emails anymore, I go directly to the school to see them in person just for asking how is the process going but they were not there, only the receptionist and he doesn’t know anything about when they are open or be there. It’s so unprofessional and scam!!!!! We are so regret and won’t believe if this school even really existed. Run away from this school if you won’t get situation as me.

Nadia was the best professor and the only good thing about this school. Everything else was awful. The food sucked, the living situation sucked. There was black mold and cracks all over the bathrooms and showers. The water wasn’t hot most of the time. The rules were extremely odd. The rooms were also not being cleaned consistently. Would not recommend staying here.