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Issue 473 - Nov 2020

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 from British Council inspection reports. On...

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...

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...

Leaning into Pisa

Melanie Butler predicts the effect of the new tests The plan to introduce, in the OECD’s 2024 Pisa tests,...

Case study: Stonyhurst Language school

Owned and run by Stonyhurst College, the summer language school takes place on the historic school campus, which...

TikTok teachers to GoGo?

Around 4,000 US teachers working online with Chinese students in China have become “collateral damage” in the Trump administration’s trade war with the People’s...

Most US ELLs can excel, can those who struggle be identified early?

Most non-native English- speaking children entering US schools at kindergarten are likely to catch up with their native English-speaking peers across all subjects by...

School for living

Melanie Burke, Director of Admissions at St Edmund’s College, takes us inside the world of British Boarding schools St Edmund’s College was founded in Douay,...
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