{"id":17715,"date":"2021-10-18T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihm.platty.tech\/blog\/international-house-40th-anniversary-madrid\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T19:51:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T17:51:31","slug":"international-house-40th-anniversary-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihm.platty.tech\/en\/blog\/international-house-40th-anniversary-madrid.html","title":{"rendered":"International House celebrates 40th anniversary in Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month of October marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of International House Madrid!<\/p>\n<p>Our school was opened in 1981 by four families who ran IH schools in other cities around Spain. Eulogio (from C\u00f3rdoba, one of the founders of the first IH), Cedric (from Santander), Javier (from San Sebasti\u00e1n) and Ben (from Barcelona), who met in the\u00a0Gran Cafeter\u00eda Santander\u00a0(which has just reopened after being closed for a few years) on Plaza Santa Ana in Alonso Mart\u00ednez. They decided that Madrid needed an IH school, and their families are still the owners of IH to this day.<\/p>\n<p>We opened our first centre on calle Zurbano (Alonso Mart\u00ednez), and we started offering English courses, and soon after Spanish and teacher training (CELTA) courses in 1983.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 539px; width: 825px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ihm.platty.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/3-Oct-18-2021-12-08-14-59-PM-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n<em>The original entrance of our IH Alonso Mart\u00ednez centre on Calle Zurbano, 8<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the past four decades, we\u2019ve given lots of types of courses across lots of locations: in our own centres, in companies, in colegios, even in other parts of Spain with national-level contracts. We\u2019ve also given (and still offer) courses of other languages (French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, and others), and in 2011 we opened an exams centre, first with Cambridge and later with IELTS, DELE (Spanish for foreigners)\u00a0and nationality exams.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 600px; width: 800px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ihm.platty.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20211018_135714-reducido-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n<em>The entrance to our IH Alonso Mart\u00ednez centre nowadays<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of students have studied and trained with us over the past 40 years, and thousands of teachers have completed their initial training courses to go on to teach across the world. We&#8217;ve also seen huge changes in our buildings and facilities, in coursebooks and methodologies and perhaps most strikingly in classroom technology (we used to use cassette players and OHPs&#8230; and are now all used to using Zoom!).<\/p>\n<p>Here are some more photos of our centres over the years!:<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jsdelivr.net\/npm\/publicalbum@latest\/embed-ui.min.js\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"pa-gallery-player-widget\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 480px; display: none;\" data-link=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/W4U5C6zACh7AvdpU7\" data-title=\"IH Madrid: 40 a\u00f1os de historia\" data-description=\"10 new photos \u00b7 Album by Daniel Saron\"><object data=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/y6Sjlz5lebqYG9oj9we89doVPyGFtcOC2YHvGpqBALvfpub_TmzK5f1sEtYWvDu2M9m7QkOdCtd188civPnTERFVPrYOwji5Up8iJLvFow3vWLZ63iChG9xsEVglosUiYoQoB0Zhkg=w1920-h1080\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/object><br \/>\n<object data=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/ebZM95mTnllCe0AhmvsK601KJ8-cX1LvFlKk7V31wonXc-G7sWaLD3vFVgQQUPMLjpjtN0bMLeVgINDbKpkrw3w9vMHK-4z7tGYT6rdC03XLOM2bej-R1rk3xyHKenhnGxSyEXptww=w1920-h1080\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/object><br \/>\n<object data=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/XtDFkiJB8cL7ngOFbiwCB3bDX8cXGO_kTZF2en1vqvCSm2fOrrFN2tRHOIjhqRB8Q6PS-4t1i6aBeHOhEQiPNGhDkB7aDquk_RVecJ56XptggnA1sanDtHGeQ_eDM45mzLtYBW5ylA=w1920-h1080\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/object><br \/>\n<object data=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-yV0f9byUVcINdAZ6NgVgZlVcouvTjM-apjXDQTSjDkT_cl4DBQh60-OnYdo4izLhiJRGCf_nIUo-ck0CmCwfw9EOOoohWNvqKoZOCyr9z53e8b5g9BdrRNA6I22GojQgDJDpdlNVw=w1920-h1080\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/object><br \/>\n<object data=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/wb8DW-Dj-TkrohX9v-Tr_KvbNqLUC9Ux_vp3jx2J7ilwS1Bn3wk3MmYYUm5YIHGtGWXfWHs6hmjNg8mNltNv3-qCCQ0FHppYOp6doOp6uXIxw4o2rdekSzhJW-cCXu5iCUnUS1Aw_w=w1920-h1080\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/object><br \/>\n<object data=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/d_Gc5IMlzecwLwR8Jl_0OGirA7yoL9tVY_6HoPGkBO3nad4evyKCEN-qdD2cPEzw3aCaHQLm_z7L-X5tuRwVTj3mgb8bAXA9LQcbMthWxnqts1BoEjRm12yuqnIfF0UARXwOp3Mxmw=w1920-h1080\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/object><br \/>\n<object data=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/zjjW8TC5JAgHMZrWSCHJ6xwLfhleLLJ9sCnspYvgBb6AZAGyFmPW8N2ooIsbCxdPtfuumf2y_ef98xXlO60ovnZCbfbEcPeUAcA_-WSsIan8EmOOMctavMPT7pxKV5XfMySvTYC5JQ=w1920-h1080\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/object><br \/>\n<object data=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/DuWKgM8ZO5gHg_-R-DTTkXiy5-sFSZrQiZlDw96KhRasZmNGHXbs1-B3VikgpLfQ03TD12_DsSlMD8QhPvv15q3mLiSvrx6Xt8YME_6gKzxJAfdHQjWogA4ECECuSJYXi9NC8f5Pmg=w1920-h1080\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/object><br \/>\n<object data=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/OVMq4Hxzcpi-W4gB3yttsinBzooE65cbbo7EOoSAeDDqNe03V3Hm0twNx8PA15sJzKZoC_zuGUcZ9BvbC4jn5qQ14abbvS73jnFlTKOmMcMD866neSZHVP3xFSTIrMeW-9N0bXmTnQ=w1920-h1080\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/object><br \/>\n<object data=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pDTIogNZrQYheaB9_rQTLXy6akdYn9sL2ui6Uay2mh6gKUf8VyjimL2L9l6K_1Namgsn9tQ4jEoCHeN-gh45dGw6T-oUQDc1L44K_bBpC8E6kBSv6bEXS2WQifWxfdP5RTbIGGDTvg=w1920-h1080\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International House celebrates 40th anniversary in Madrid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihm.platty.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihm.platty.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihm.platty.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihm.platty.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihm.platty.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ihm.platty.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihm.platty.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihm.platty.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihm.platty.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihm.platty.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}