Welcome to AutoScholar!

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We are a driving school based around south-west Manchester. Click on the Working Areas link for more detail on the areas where we work.

We also call ourselves AutoKoala or, sometimes, Koalaškola or even Autoškola depending on how the mood takes us. Why?

We don't do Driver Training. We educate people who drive cars. To us, this is an important distinction. Follow the Our Courses link to read about the lessons and courses we offer.

Our Chief Instructor holds the Driving Standards Agency Approved Driving Instructor (car) qualification. (This is a legal requirement for all driving teachers.) He is also a qualified Fleet Driver Trainer and is on the DSA's Fleet Driver Trainers' Register. He is an Institute of Advanced Motorists Registered Instructor and he has passed the DIAmond Special Test. He also holds Qualified Teacher Status. Since coming into the driver education sector he has acquired an enviable reputation for delivering high quality teaching and learning. Learn more by clicking on the Biography link.

What Cars?

We presently teach in cars from the Volkswagen group (VW, Seat, Škoda), with petrol engines. These are regularly updated and from time to time alternative new vehicles may be introduced.

In particular, we are currently planning to convert our cars to use LPG fuel, which burns much cleaner than petrol and is less damaging to the environment. We hope to have these cars on the road very soon. The fuel makes absolutely no difference to the driver. Our Chief Instructor's family car has been running on LPG for years and years.

Why AutoScholar? Or, for that matter, Koalaškola or Autoškola?

Autoškola means "School of Motoring" in Slovakia. Slovakia is a beautiful country with which our Chief Instructor and his family have close ties and which they love to visit whenever possible.

Somehow, starting from Autoškola, first AutoKoala and then AutoScholar seemed to suggest themselves as happy, cuddly names for a driver education school.

Or, to put it another way, no especially good reason at all. Seemed like a good idea at the time, and it's stuck!