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BEC scoops school award

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.

Image courtesy of BROADSTAIRS ENGLISH CENTRE
Melanie Butler
Melanie Butler
Melanie started teaching EFL in Iran in 1975. She worked for the BBC World Service, Pearson/Longman and MET magazine before taking over at the Gazette in 1987 and also launching Study Travel magazine. Educated in ten schools in seven countries, she speaks fluent French and Spanish and rather rusty Italian.
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