Issue 468 - Jan 2020
Does learning languages open your mind?
Learning more languages makes you more flexible, open-minded and more likely to take the initiative in social situations, according to Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck, University...
Teacher’s Pet
You’ve heard about the ‘flipped classroom’ but how about a ’flipped CELTA’? That’s the future of training, according to International House (IH) London.
As those...
Reading the academic rankings . . .
Melanie Butler explains the QS ranking system and how we arrived at our listing criteria
At the EL Gazette, we do not rank Masters’ degrees...
Leading in Linguistics and Language
Melanie Butler takes a look at the top schools for Master’s degrees in Linguistics and Language
Most ELT-related Masters come under Applied Linguistics, Education or...
New UK government, new SELTs
One of the first acts of the UK Government, elected in December, was to appoint providers for the Secure English Language Tests (SELT) needed...
Clil programme covers 1,000 Kazakh teachers
A mass teacher-training project, involving more than 1,000 Kazakh teachers of science and IT in state schools, was completed in early November as part...
