EC English Language Centres has acquired a school in Manhattan, New York, its third in the United States.

CEO Andrew Mangion said that EC acquired its first school in the US, in Boston, last year and followed that up with a school in San Diego last April 2008.

EC, which is a Maltese owned group of language schools, also has schools in London, Cambridge and Brighton in the UK and in Cape Town.

The new school is just off Times Square in New York.