Melanie Butler looks at this year’s PIEoneer winners
Broadstairs English Centre (BEC) was named Language Educator of the Year in the 4th annual PIEoneer awards held online in early October. BEC, which is the top-scoring year-round school for young learners in the UK, according to the EL Gazette rankings, won the award for its ‘wrap around school’ approach, which sees activity leaders, admin staff and host families all trained in EFL techniques to help them support learners.
ILAC Canada and the University of Sydney Centre for English Teaching were highly commended in the same category.
“Proud to have carried the ELT banner,” in these international education awards, was Adam Salkeld, co-founder of Digital Learning Associates, whose 2019 ELTon winner Ready to Run video resource was Highly Commended.
PIEoneer of the Year award went to United World Colleges, a network of 18 not-for-profit schools across the world founded by German educationalist Kurt Hahn to bridge cultural and national divides.