News in Brief
From Gazette news editor Matt Salusbury
INDIA: Parents of students at the Podar International School in Maharashtra State demonstrated at the school gates in mid-June...
Irish online courses slammed
Ireland’s language schools are the latest to be accused of charging too much money for online courses which are “not fit for purpose”.
Complaints about...
Chinese international school students returning to class
Bright Scholar Education, the Chinese international school specialists, have announced that just under 90 per cent of its students in Mainland China have returned...
TESOL calls for US$1 billion funding while US struggles to teach ELLs in lockdown
In April 2020, 40 US educational bodies, including TESOL International Association, wrote to congressional leaders asking for an additional US$1 billion in funding for...
ELT nervous as Malta opens
Thousands of Hungarian students are to study in Malta, the foreign ministry have announced. It is not clear whether the 8,000 students will arrive...
Pearson hits the ground running as the race to re-open language testing takes off
English language testing ground to a halt as Covid-19 locked down the world. Freya Thomas Monk, Senior Vice President of English Assessment at Pearson,...
