Issue 468 - Jan 2020
News in brief
ISRAEL: The Council for Higher Education has announced a new “Study in Israel” initiative, which aims to double the number of international students studying...
Bang for your bucks: best value London schools
Melanie Butler explains how to get the best course for your money
The graph on this page shows the value for money for language schools...
Naughty Corner
In a “precipitous fall from grace,” to quote his lawyer, former principal of Dulwich College Shanghai, Dominic Charnock has been sentenced to 11 months...
Traditional teaching tires teachers out
Traditional, teacher-centred teaching is more likely to lead to exhaustion than more modern, constructivist methods where students are actively responsible for their own learning,...
Student trafficking scam hits UK
At least 21 Vietnamese students have disappeared from British boarding schools as part of a people smuggling scandal, according to the Times newspaper. Many...
Fakes, facts and dodgy statistics
It’s not always easy to tell the genuine article, even in education. But the job of a journalist is to try to do so,...
