Mr Peter Fyles is the CEO of the company and head of the Central Office. Mr Fyles, originally from Britain, excelled as a teacher from 1998 in our mother school in Enskede and then did a magnificent job as a Principal, starting up our new school in Gävle in 2003, leading it to become one of the best in the country (†). After two years in that function, he was appointed CEO for the whole group from July 2005.

If you wish to contact the CEO, Mr. Peter John Fyles, please do so via the Executive Secretary, Ms. Emma Schröder. Her details are as follows:

Tel: 08-544 735 39
Mobile: 073 625 72 21
Email: emma.schroder@engelska.se

Dear All

Being a teacher with IES is very different than being a teacher anywhere else in Sweden. Why? Because quite simply, IES teachers go the extra mile.

It all starts when we go out recruiting. From the very beginning we stress to prospective applicants that we are an Anglo-American business that has high expectations from the top down. That we are an organisation where our teachers gladly offer extra curricular activities outside class and where our mentors adopt 15 children when they sign up. We look for enthusiastic professionals who see this wondrous thing we do, which we call teaching, as a calling and not simply a job.

It is not just the small benefits one receives that makes working as an IES teacher special. The free working lunches, the mobile phone offer or the choice of fitness packages made available are all nice incentives, but it is more than that. It’s the care that is taken to ensure that teachers feel valued. From the beginning, teachers arriving from abroad receive help to find accommodation from the individual school hostesses. Non-Swedish speakers are educated to use Swedish, and the IES Academy develops the skills of our professionals constantly.

As a red thread that runs through the entire organisation, schools compete to be the best, both internally and externally. The Tibetan Soccer cup, the Bergström Essay Award and the National Museum Awards, are examples of our friendly inter-school rivalry, which promotes healthy competition and which in turn inspires and evokes the best of our young charges. At the classroom level, teachers continue to foster the winning spirit by awarding regularly for "most punctual class", "most improved student" and of course the "Lady and Gentleman" awards for good manners at the end of term 9 Proms.

Academically, we are at the forefront of Swedish education, as many of our schools have proved in the DN Awards over the years. Schools are regularly targeted to receive the innovative Year 9 "Study Smart" programme. The continuance or ‘surgeries’, academic notices and obligatory parental contact every fortnight puts our efforts above the rest.

In addition, and most importantly, it is the very IES ethos itself that helps create a quiet, thriving learning environment. Within this calm ‘miljö’ one encounters the holistic offshoots of our fundamental philosophy: well-mannered children, a culture of ‘yes, please’ and ‘no, thank you’ and an appreciation by all for what we are creating. The ‘Anglos’ realise our schools are institutions void of aggression and our Swedes appreciate the subtle but vital difference between tutoring and empowering students about democracy.

At management level the company is constantly striving to succeed and improve, and IES has been Gazelle award winners three years in a row. The Internal Managers Course (IMC) continues and the recruitment process has been refined from one outing per year to annual trips to Canada, London and the Swedish Lärarhögskolor.

Naturally, we are always planning ahead and this year will reveal:

• Further Grundskolor expansion including several Junior Schools
• A new internal IT training program
• A significant pilot project with Interactive Whiteboards
  

IES Teachers go the extra mile. That is what makes IES different.

With thanks

Peter John Fyles
Managing Director