About Us

Why IATQuO?

The International Accreditation of TESOL Qualifying Organisations (IATQuO) exists to promote and maintain internationally acceptable standards in the training of teachers of English to speakers of other languages. It wishes to encourage organisations dedicated to professional standards in training teachers for TESOL, wishing to maintain their professional independence and who in many instances may not have substantial financial resources.

To achieve this we provide initial and ongoing external validation/accreditation services to training organisations who request them. We also encourage training organisations to subscribe to our validation services if they do not already subscribe to them, or to any comparable validation or accreditation scheme.

One of the most important reasons for our existence is to help potential trainees, when they come to choose where they want to train as a teacher of English, to distinguish between institutions whose prime concern may not be quality of training and those who are committed to quality.

A second reason is to offer a similar choice to teacher trainers wishing to apply for teacher training jobs.

What is IATQuO?

It is an accreditation organisation for TESOL training centres who subscribe to the aims expressed above and who are prepared to undergo and pay for external scrutiny.

It is secondly a not for profit organisation dedicated to implementing the aims and objectives expressed in the mission statement at the beginning of this website.

The organisation operates solely on the income generated by selling its services and is not financially aided by any single body or institution.

Who is IATQuO Director and Academic Director?

Dr Alan Dallas Moller

A British applied linguist specialized in language testing, Alan D Moller, Ph.D and Dip App Ling (Edinburgh), MA (Cantab), PGCE (London).

Dr  Alan Moller, a retired British Council Officer, has been Director of the English Language Services Department of the British Council incorporating, among other tasks, inspecting and advising language schools worldwide. He wrote many of the BC Tests for English as a Foreign Language (mini platform tests) still in use nowadays. He was actively involved with the introduction of the ELTS (now IELTS) in 1989.

Alan was posted in Africa, Singapore, and Malaysia and was Cultural Attaché at the New Delhi British High Commission in charge of organising the Henry Moore Exhibition.

After retiring from the British Council, Alan has been full time Chief Examiner for Trinity College London. Duties included academic responsibility for the Certificate in TESOL, for the Diploma in TESOL, and for the suite of Spoken English tests. On his departure from TCL in 1999, these responsibilities were assigned to three different professionals. 

In 2003, he was appointed Chair of Examiners for the London Tests of English by the main British Examinations Board, EDEXCEL (London).

His Ph.D