A Brief History of IH Barcelona
| 1972 | International House Barcelona is established by Ben Warren. The new school occupies one floor of a building in the city centre, and its main activity is teaching English to people from the local community. |
| 1973 | IH Barcelona opens its Spanish department. |
| 1976 | A new department dedicated to training English language teachers is opened. |
| 1978 | The school expands onto a second floor in the same building on Calle Trafalgar. |
| 1980 | The school opens an agency dedicated to sending students on language courses abroad. |
| 1982 | A new department dedicated to in-company language training is started. The school expands onto a third floor. |
| 1983 | The school opens the Spanish teacher training department and offers the first practical teacher training courses for Spanish language teachers in Spain. |
| 1991 | After Ben Warren's death, Jonathan Dykes takes over the management of the school. |
| 1991 | The first Conference for Spanish teachers is organised by our Spanish teacher training department. This annual event becomes the largest conference for Spanish teachers in Spain. |
| 1993 | IH Barcelona becomes a DELE exam centre. |
| 1994 | The Ben Warren Trust is established and an annual prize for the most significant contribution to the field of language teacher education is launched. |
| 1995 | The school opens an 'electronic classroom' containing computers connected to the Internet. This was almost certainly the first Internet room opened by any language school in Spain. |
| 1998 | Net Languages is started and develops into one of the world's leading virtual language schools. |
| 1998 | IH Barcelona's Spanish teacher training courses are recognised by the University of Barcelona. |
| 2001 | The school takes over another three floors in the building and undergoes a major refurbishment. The first summer Spanish course for teenagers is offered in Tarragona. |
| 2002 | Spanish courses in Palma de Mallorca are offered for the first time, in collaboration with IH Palma. |
| 2004 | IH Barcelona opens a new school in Playa del Carmen (Mexico) in collaboration with IH Mexico. IH's first Spanish courses in Cuba are started. |
| 2005 | Our new Translation Service joins the other language services we provide. |
| 2006 | We launch The VIVA Group, a new brand name designed to help promote the five Spanish language schools that operate in collaboration with IH Barcelona (Barcelona, Palma, Tarragona, Playa de Carmen and Santiago de Cuba). |
| 2007 | IH Barcelona opens IH Bogotá and starts Spanish courses in Colombia, in collaboration with IH Mexico and our Colombian partners. |
| 2007 | IH Barcelona opens IH Belfast, a specialist English language school and teacher training centre and one of the first year-round quality schools to open in Northern Ireland. |
| 2007 | IH Barcelona becomes a Full Member of EAQUALS, The European Association for Quality Language Services. Further details of accreditation for our courses. |
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