A class apart?
Melanie Butler dives into the data on boarding schools
Statistics show that British boarding schools are the top-performing sector in UK EFL, based on reports...
English from first grade in Saudi schools
Saudi Arabia’s state schools will start to teach English as a subject from the first grade of primary school starting from the 2021 academic...
Taiwan’s “Bilingual by 2030” too ambitious
The governments’ “Bilingual by 2030” plan, which aims to have the island speaking English within a decade (see www.elgazette. com/global-perspective-taiwan/) has drawn criticism from...
Leaning into Pisa
Melanie Butler predicts the effect of the new tests
The plan to introduce, in the OECD’s 2024 Pisa tests, an optional foreign language assessment, will...
Case study: Stonyhurst Language school
Owned and run by Stonyhurst College, the summer language school takes place on the historic school campus, which boasts four libraries, a new tennis...
Cyprus to promote EMI universities
The Parliament of Cyprus in early September debated a Bill to promote English-medium public sector universities on the island, which Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou...
