Experience

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  The Centre for Applied Philology

  • Owner

    • Oct 1997 - Present

    Language Training Consultant, Adjunct Lecturer, Teacher Trainer, Education Inspector, Public Speaker, Author, Editor and Copy-editor, Translator in Hong Kong until April 2015, when I returned home to UK. Since returning to UK I have taught ESL and EAP courses to private foreign students both face-to-face and online and also worked as a pre-sessional course EAP lecturer for 6 six weeks in Coventry University. I hope to find similar work in preparing overseas students for the new academic year in British or European universities.

  • Owner

    • 1997 - Present

    To apply the study of historical linguistics to the development of improved language learning and teaching in general but especially in the field of Indo-European languages

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  Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIE)

  • Hong Kong

  • Lecturer

    • Sep 1990 - Jul 1997
    • Hong Kong

    As a lecturer in the Education Bureau Institute of Language in Education (ILE), which was later incorporated into the HKIE, I was concerned with the retraining of trained teachers of English especially with regards to the linguistic elements of English. While in this position I was also the editor and a copy-editor of the annual conference papers in addition to being a conference speaker on several occasions. During this same period, I was also active in extramural lecturing and became an active member of a local Toastmasters Club, The Achievers.

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  Qatar University

  • Doha, Qatar

  • Assistant Lecturer

    • Sep 1989 - Jul 1990
    • Doha, Qatar

    English Department language lecturer

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  Kuwait University

  • Kuwait

  • English Language Instructor

    • Sep 1982 - Aug 1989
    • Kuwait

    I lectured in three departments during my stay in Kuwait: the Faculty of Medicine, later the Department of Allied Health Sciences and Nursing and finally the newly established Graduate College. During this time I also taught English extramurally in the university evening classes and in the Institute of Banking, completed my Ph. D. and gave my first public lecture.

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  Self-employed Language Training Consultant

  • Marlborough, Wilts, and Lambourn, Berks, UK

  • Language Training Consultant

    • Nov 1977 - Oct 1981
    • Marlborough, Wilts, and Lambourn, Berks, UK

    During this period, my major client was Librairie du Liban, the Pearson Book Group Arab World Agent. As such I acted as the company's representative for North Africa with the exception of Egypt, i.e. Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, and the Europe representative for the company's own publications, e.g. Libsay, Beirut University Press and the York Notes.Another client was Cable and Wireless and its contract with Saudi Arabian National Guard which involved establishing a training centre initially in Riyadh.

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  British Council / Institute of Public Administration

  • Sana'a, North Yemen Arab Republic

  • Head of English Department

    • Sep 1971 - Jul 1977
    • Sana'a, North Yemen Arab Republic

    I was contracted to establish an English Department in the Institute in preparation for a UNDP project. In time my department was expanded to about 10 teachers from the following volunteer resources: VSO, USIS and CIIC for the top administrators in the YAR civil service.In the last year of my contract my duties were to rewrite my English Language textbook "English for the Sudan" as "English for the Yemen". Neither book was ever published as a government sponsored project and both countries to this day purchase books from overseas.

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  British Council / Institute for Elementary and Intermediate School Education

  • Bakht-er-Ruda, near El Dueim, Sudan

  • Head of English Department

    • Sep 1966 - Jul 1971
    • Bakht-er-Ruda, near El Dueim, Sudan

    As Head of English in the Intermediate School Department, it was my duty with my staff of three Sudanese to train all new male Intermediate School teachers in the country (c 450 schools in one million square miles).It was also our duty to inspect as many of these schools as possible in two three week tours per year and to set and mark the English element in the national secondary school entry examinations each year (c 1,500 candidates for 4 exam papers each) with the help of 20-30 British VSOs from the secondary schools.In the final 5th year I was contracted to work in Khartoum and complete writing a textbook "English for the Sudan" for use in all the intermediate schools throughout the whole country. I wrote the books but for the project was later abandoned.

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  British Council / Petaro Cadet College, near Hyderabad, Sindh, West Pakistan

  • near Hyderabad, Sindh, West Pakistan

  • High School English Teacher

    • Sep 1964 - Jul 1966
    • near Hyderabad, Sindh, West Pakistan

    English teacher concentrating on the first two forms where I felt the most useful work could be done. The contract was not renewed because of war with India.Began my first real contact with Islam and began to study Urdu.

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  British Council / Institute of Foreign Languages

  • Nicosia, Cyprus

  • English Language Instructor

    • Jan 1963 - Jul 1964
    • Nicosia, Cyprus

    I was the first English language teacher to be employed by the Greek Cypriots since "the troubles". My duties were to teach secondary school students in the afternoons and adult classes in the evenings. I also acted as the English language proof reader for a new magazine issued by the Greek Communal Chamber "Cyprus Today". The project to begin writing a new English language guide to Cyprus was abandoned because of the war with the Turks, when the first UN troops arrived and established the green line between the two communities. My contract was not renewed and one year later the project of employing native-English language teachers was discontinued.I began my first serious studies of modern Greek and travelled extensively the island.

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  Coventry Board Of Education / Coundon Girls' Comprehensive School

  • Coventry, United Kingdom

  • Head of German Department

    • Jan 1960 - Dec 1962
    • Coventry, United Kingdom

    My duties were to teach German throughout the school - all my students of German passed their GCE"A" levels and two gained state scholarships.During my time in the school, I took a school party to Vienna and later organised and was courier for the Coventry Youth Orchestra when it visited European towns especially those twinned with Coventry as a result especially of WWII, namely Kiel, (Halle), and Graz.During this period I also taught both French and German in evening classes, especially German in Coventry Technical College, later a part of Coventry University.

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  Her Majesty's Armed Forces (Army) / National Service (NS)

  • Various postings in UK

  • Corporal / Royal Corps of Signals

    • Jan 1958 - Jan 1960
    • Various postings in UK

    As a degree holder, I was automatically a potential officer, but preferred to study on the Russian Course. After trade training, I began this course but transferred to Polish when I married. After NS I transferred from the Army Emergency Reserve to the Territorial Army (Intelligence Corps) until I went overseas to work.

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  West Bromwich Education Office

  • West Bromwich

  • Supply teacher

    • Sep 1959 - Dec 1959
    • West Bromwich

    I worked in a secondary school in West Bromwich while I was waiting for my call-up for National Service. I chose this area because both my parents are Midlanders (South Staffs) and I wanted to learn more about my family background and the social history of the area.

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  Lings Travel Agency

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Tourist Courier

    • Jul 1957 - Sep 1957
    • London, United Kingdom

    As a French and German speaker, I was able to obtain work during and after my university studies in Switzerland (1956) and Austria (1957)

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  Hanseatic City of Luebeck Education Office, Johanneum Gymnasium fuer Jungen

  • Luebeck / Holstein, Germany

  • Lektor

    • Sep 1955 - Jul 1956
    • Luebeck / Holstein, Germany

    In this period, students of German in the University of London were permitted to take one years's leave after their second year of the three year course in order to work in a school in a German-speaking country. This was in addition to the compulsory semester in a German-speaking university (in my case Tuebingen / Baden Wuerttemberg) in the third term of the first year.