The British Teaching Diploma and SE Asia

As many of our regular colleagues will know, we at Dragonfly Training used to do a lot of work in SE Asia before the pandemic changed everything.

We first started working in Thailand some 20 years ago when the company was only 5 years old. This had come about due to reasons that will be familiar to many who know Dragonfly/me well….my love of playing music in a band.

I hadn’t played in a band for some 20 years when a coaching session I was having revealed that it was in fact my ‘hearts desire’! A year later, I’m just starting gigging with a ‘mums and dads’ band as we called ourselves, when I got to know a singer in another local band we shared a gig with one night. His name was Andrew Wigford and he ran an educational recruitment company called TIC.

The fact that there were two companies involved in international education, in one very small town (Penarth, just outside Cardiff) was just one of life’s great coincidences. Andrew and I got on well, we started running programmes in Dubai and Vietnam and together and it is from there that this particular story unfolds.

Our courses in Bangkok were becoming especially popular with the Harrow group of schools, so on one of my own personal visits there, I chatted with Dr Denry Machin, who was the ex Head of Harrow Bangkok upper school and he expressed an interest in setting up ‘Dragonfly SE Asia’ which we ran together, very successfully, for many years.

This collaboration ended with the pandemic but we stayed very much in touch with AISL which is the company that represents all the Harrow schools and we are very pleased to announce that both The British Teaching Diploma and DragonflyTV will be featured on the ‘AISL Mall’, which is opening soon. 

We are absolutely delighted to be working with such an organisation as AISL and we released this information below about the opening of their Mall for Education a few weeks ago 

It has been a long, and sometimes bumpy road, but we are absolutely delighted to announce that AISL are finally ready to launch their new website for the entire SE Asian region and our British Teaching Diploma will be featured on there along with many of our standard training programmes.

We wish our colleagues at AISL all the very best and good luck with their exciting new venture. 

We very much look forward to working with colleagues in the region soon, and on a personal basis, I hope I get to return to the wonderful cities of Bangkok and Ho Chi Min cities soon.

Onwards and upwards.