Saxoncourt


Saxoncourt Group is a group of companies that operate English schools in the UK, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Vietnam, Algeria, Poland, Thailand and Turkey. Saxoncourt Holdings, Ltd., is based in Road Town, British Virgin Islands.
The original company in the group, Shane English School, was founded in Tokyo, Japan in 1977 by Shane Lipscome. Shane English School's Japanese operations were sold off to the Japanese cram school operator Eikoh in 2010.

Group companies

Origins

Shane English School was started by Shane Lipscombe in the kitchen of his apartment in Tokyo in 1977.

Growth of the company

One of the co-companies, Saxoncourt Teacher Recruitment, was founded in 1990, and it started to place teachers in Japan. Also in 1990, Shane English School opened its 50th school. Two years later in 1992, another co-company called Shane Global Language Centre opened in London's West End. The third co-company, Saxoncourt Teacher Training, began a year later in 1993, and started training its first teachers, and established the first CELTA courses. Also in 1993, Shane English School Japan opened its 100th school, and became one of the founding members of the Japan Association for the Promotion of Foreign Language Education. The following year in 1994, operations of Shane English School Taiwan were established.　In 1997, their first kindergarten opened in Taiwan.
In 1997, The Saxoncourt Group invested in Target Co. of Poland and established Target & Shane Language Training.