Monday, December 23, 2024

Issue 469 - Mar 2020

“We should start by putting ourselves first, not our students”

Students suffer when teachers are stressed out, argues Lara Statham We always hear that we should be putting our students first. And I believe that many of us do just...

Business Partner B1 Student’s Book

O’Keeffe, Lansford, Wright R., Frendo, Wright L. Pearson ISBN: 9781292233543 This business English coursebook aims to help students communicate effectively in...

New Secure English Language Tests for UK migrants

Migrants to the UK will benefit from the expansion in the number of Secure English Language Test (SELT)...

An unexpected bonus?

To help differentiate our very top centres we’ve been diving deep in the data, as Melanie Butler explains More...

Wise words from a summer school super-head

Millfield’s Mark Greenow reveals to Melanie Butler his secrets for success He doesn’t just run Millfield English Language Holiday...

Do teachers need degrees?

Research shows it matters, says Melanie Butler Across the developed world, a first degree is a prerequisite for teachers working in mainstream education, but not...

London teachers get payout after direct action

A group of EFL teachers at a Central London language school who were made redundant on 20 December have won an “enhanced redundancy package,”...

Top for under-16s

Melanie Butler explains the ranking of language centres for young learners Click here to see PDF of top YL centres Language centres for young learners are...

Linking up the data

Melanie Butler looks at chain schools How good are the chains? First, we need to define what we mean by a chain. In the UK,...

Who does best in the Young Learner rankings?

Melanie Butler examines the results sector by sector Two things set the UK junior market apart from competitor countries. First, most of the courses are...

How learning Chinese improved Ernie’s English

A Chinese Artificial intelligence (AI) platform has improved AI understanding of both Chinese and English, reports Yu Sun and colleagues from Baidu Inc., Beijing. Up...
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