Aihua is an English language school based in the west of Beijing. We are licensed to run by the Shijingshan Department of Education, and we are authorized to hire foreign teachers under Z (foreign expert) visas by the State Authority for Foreign Expert Affairs.

The school was established on January 2nd, 2002 as a joint venture by the Dublin-based Swan Training Institute, Dr David Cotter (Aihua’s Foreign Headmaster), and Chen Xi (Aihua’s Chinese Headmistress).

We operate from a 10 classroom school (complete with a cafeteria, and two teachers’ rooms). We employ nearly 30 Chinese teaching, marketing and administration staff. We currently teach about 5000 students every term.

The majority of our students are young learners, but Aihua offers courses appropriate for every level, including adults and teenagers.

Aihua is unlike most other schools in China. We are not a corporation, but a community. We are not a chain of schools, but rather a single school that works in close harmony with the local community of Shijingshan, in west Beijing. Furthermore, we have operated for five years under a joint western and Chinese management, and so have learned to balance the needs of our teachers with the needs of the local community. We have, in fact, created an integrated western / Chinese community, which takes the best of both of these worlds, and makes something better. None who have been here would deny that the ambience at Aihua is invigorating.