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Issue 472 - Sep 2020

Covid killed summer course status quo, says new St Edmund’s director

Mike Pengelly believes it’s time to change the traditional summer school business model This was the summer that summer school didn’t happen. Day camps did well with local kids in...

School Covid-19 cluster shakes Maltese ELT

A cluster of Covid-19 cases at a language school in Malta has kept the island’s industry firmly in...

Hamish Chalmers: Trusting the evidence

Ron Ragsdale talks to Hamish Chalmers, language education researcher and former international school teacher, about the power of...

The future belongs to under-16s

Alex Cann shares with Melanie Butler his plans to grow and diversify what IH London Young Learners can...

What price do you put on quality?

New Zealand’s ‘team of five million’ is doing a great job fighting Covid-19, and Kim Renner asks what...

The student on your doorstep

The chaos of Covid-19 is not unprecedented. Ron Ragsdale and Melanie Butler examine the options On 5 Oct 1918, faced with the Spanish flu pandemic,...

Chinese student found dead in Australia

Detective Inspector Robert Alison of the Sydney police has appealed to the public for information surrounding the death of a Chinese student, according to...

Native speakers recruited to teach in Taiwan

A significant increase in the number of native English speakers teaching in Taiwanese state schools is planned as part of the island’s ambitious blueprint...

Practical tips for engaging young learners online

Ross Thorburn talks to the Gazette about his popular podcast and online teaching TEFL Training Institute Ross Thorburn started up the TEFL Training Institute website with...

Breaking the sound barrier: how nerve stimulation helps learners

Stimulating the vagus nerve may help perception of pitch, study shows Stimulating the vagus nerve via the outer ear could improve listening skills in language...

In the front ranks

Across all sectors, the UK’s language standards are rising, so we drill down to differentiate, says Melanie Butler It is a September, nine months into...
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