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Payment may be made by card, cheque or bank transfer.
· Cheque: made payable to Instituto Cervantes , by post or in person
· Postal order: payable to Instituto Cervantes , by post or in person
· Credit / Debit Card: by phone or in person
PLEASE NOTE: We do not take cash in the office.
If you would like us to invoice your company, please provide written authorization at the time of registration.
Full payment must be received prior to the first class.
Before enrolling, students are requested to examine their personal commitments (family, employment, health, etc.) carefully as fees are non refundable under any circumstances once classes have started. Tuition fees are refundable ONLY if requested in writing before the course has begun. There will be a processing fee of £30.00 for all refunds.
Tuition fees are refundable ONLY if requested in writing before the first class of the course. There will be a processing fee of £30.00.
Refunds will be issued to all students who cancel in writing, by the refund/cancellation deadline. You can mail or fax your cancellation (e-mail: cenman@cervantes.es or fax: 0161-611 4203). Unfortunately we cannot accept cancellations by phone or regular mail. We cannot grant refunds for enrolments received after the refund deadline.
We cannot prorate classes or transfer unused class time to another semester.
Teachers are not assigned to their classes until the week prior to the beginning of each course.
Instituto Cervantes reserves the right to reassign teachers after a course has started.
We cannot guarantee that students and their former classmates will be placed into the same section if there are two sections
of the same level running simultaneously.
A follow-up course is always offered within the Academic Year for students currently enrolled in a class, even if it is not on the
printed programme. A minimum of 6 students is required for courses to take place.
Generally, the minimum class size is six and the maximum is sixteen. Please enrol early or we may not be able to accommodate you at the time that best fits your schedule.
There are times when we may decide to open a class with more students, depending on the course and needs of the Institute. No class will be opened with fewer than six students.
Instituto Cervantes reserves the right to cancel courses for which fewer than six students have registered. Students enrolled in a cancelled course will be notified and may transfer to another section of the same price range, providing it is not full, or request a full refund.
At Instituto Cervantes you can find a variety of schedules for classes offered Monday to Saturday. For dates and times please visit our website www.manchester.cervantes.es or see our brochure:
Þ Extensive Courses. (30 hours). Ten weeks. ¨ One three-hour session per week.
¨ Two one-and-a-half hour sessions per week.
Þ Regular Courses. (30 hours). Five weeks. ¨ Two three-hour sessions per week.
Þ Special Courses. (20 hours). Ten weeks. ¨ One two-hour session per week.
Students who have studied Spanish in the past, and have never studied at Instituto Cervantes before, are required to take a Level Test before enrolling for General Spanish Language Courses or Special Courses. There are two parts to the exam: Written and oral. Assessment Tests are free of charge and are administered on a walk-in basis.
Hours available for written exam: Monday to Thursday, 9:30 am - 7:30 pm. Friday 9:30 am - 2:00 pm
Hours available for oral exam: The oral part can be completed over the phone upon request during administration hours, or at
the Institute at the following times: Monday to Thursday, 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm. Friday 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
If you wish to complete the full exam, please arrive between 12:00 pm and 12:30 pm to allow approximately 30 minutes for the written portion. The oral exam is administered by a teacher after you have completed the written portion of the exam and it takes approximately 15 minutes.
If you are unable to make it to the institute between 1:00 pm and 2:30pm for the oral exam, a teacher will reach you by telephone the following business day.
Attendance is the student’s responsibility. If a student does not attend a class, the lesson cannot be made up at another time. Once classes begin there is no transferring between classes.
Please get a fellow student’s telephone number or contact your teacher for homework in cases of absence. You can send an email to acman1@cervantes.es writing the name of the teacher as the topic of your email.
Once a class has been assigned to a student they may not attend a different class or course.
Students are required to pass the last course of each level (Elementary 5, Intermediate 4, Advanced 5, Higher 6) in order to advance to the following level.
