History of the company

    Denis' School company was established in 1992 by an international team of enthusiasts devoted to education.
To meet the needs of the dynamically developing market, the company was established as the  Scientific Educational Center with Russian investments.
   The Unique Denis’ School method became the educational basis for foreign language training for adults who need the language for work, further education and traveling, but who cannot devote much time for the learning process.
   During quite a short time Denis' School grew into an international foreign language school, a vast net of branches, one of the biggest and most famous ones not only in big cities like Moscow , St. Petersburg, Warsaw, but also in many cities and towns in Europe, Russia, China.
   Our School started as an English School for adults and now we offer German, French, Russian, Italian and any other European languages, Asian languages and even rare ones for our students.  

Steps of development

Creation and further development of unique authoring method  

1989 – an international group of specialists gathers, the research work starts,
1992  - the unique authoring method of teaching foreign languages is created. The company is established,
1994 – first authoring training set is finalized and published,
2003 – new wave of authoring sets meeting the market demands - "Target" и "Free Way" – are developed and published,
2005 - Denis' School is the official partner of the European Council to develop the programs of “European Language Case”,
2007 – Joint Project with  "ABBYY Lingvo" company:   the exclusive electronic dictionary for authoring DS training sets is issued.

Regional Development

1992 – First School working as an authoring programs school appears in St, Petersburg,  
1995 – First regional branch is established in Moscow,
1998 – First students in Irkutsk and Nizhni Novgorod enjoy advantages of studying with DS authoring method,
1999
- the first foreign branch is established in Poland (Warsaw),
-the first branch office is opened in the Ukraine (Kiev),
2001 – A branch is established in Yekaterinburg,
2004 – DS Branches are opened in Samara, Omsk, Novosibirsk,
2006 - 8 Denis’ School Polish branches are established  in 8 Polish cities,
2008 – Denis' School representative office is set up in Shanghai

Broadening the range of services

2000 - Denis' School  sets up a new service line, “Oversees Studies” and the School sends it’s first students to get education (on short term and long-term training programs to Great Britain),  
2001 - Denis' School offers wide range of German and French training programs,
2002
- English Programs for special purposes for different industries are developed and introduced to the clients; specialized programs for  IT business, Insurance, Hotel business, air transportation are among them.
- Children’s Summer Camp in Turkey  welcomes it’s first campers to enjoy  a balanced mixture of summer fun and learning English. This successful project is set up in cooperation with Tez-Tour, the leading tour operator.
2003 – The First Project of Interregional Training   for employees of L'Oreal  company in 4 cities of Russia,
2005
- New Trainings for Children and Teenagers adapted to the Young learners psychological peculiarities and needs started in all branches of Denis’ School,  
- DS Teachers go Narian-Mar to provide tailor-made trainings in the network of DS-Lukoil Interregional Training Project
2007  
- First-rate Interregional Training Project for SunInbev Company staff : trainings in 32 cities and towns of Russian Federation,
- Joint Project with a British leading publishing house, Macmillan on using Macmillan e-learning platform as the internet support  for Denis’ School system of trainings,
- Denis' School becomes the exclusive partner of "Tell me more" on-line trainings, the exclusive right holder in Russia,
2009 – “English for HR” Joint Project with “Headhunter”,  first-rate recruitment agency.  

 Company’s Development in personnel training and management

1995 – Developing workshops for teachers on authoring method technologies,
2002 – Creating integrated system of teacher trainings for teaching adults children and teenagers,
2006 - Denis' School University is set up in Moscow for teacher’s professional development,
2007 – Implementation of Corporate Informational System starts in St. Petersburg and Moscow,
2008  -  All regional Denis’ School centers are joint with Integrated Corporate Information System,    
Public Activities, Awards and Certificates
2004 – Russian Fund of Consumers’ Rights Protection awarded  Denis' School with special diploma,
2005– 11th Polish Economic Forum awarded  Denis' School with the title  "The Leader in Business "
2006
- Denis' School is awarded with the Diploma of the International Exhibition "Education and Career, ХХI Century",
- Denis' School becomes a member of American Chamber of Commerce,
 2007
 - Denis' School is awarded with the Diploma  of the National Business Award “Captains of the Russian Business”,
2009
 - Denis' School is awarded with the prize "Golden Fortune"   in the nomination  “For professionalism in establishing educational centers and high-quality of the service provision”

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