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Jun 2020

UK government bails out British Council

The UK government has given the British Council a second cash injection of £60 million, according to the Guardian newspaper. The money, which comes on top of £28 million...

Malta to open ELT in July

Maltese language schools will open in July, Julia Farrugia Portelli, Minister for Tourism, has told FELTOM (the Federation...

Punjabis prefer IELTS brides

The ancient tradition of Indian arranged marriages has taken a new twist among matchmakers in the northern state...

Korea closes language schools as Covid-19 hits hagwons

The Metropolitan Government of Seoul at the end of May ordered a programme of “special inspections” of the...

Seven language schools go in North America

A flurry of language school closures in North America demonstrates the impact of Covid-19 lockdowns on the language...

Class struggle and the corona virus

Language schools and teachers are fighting their own grounds as teaching moves online The language school industry in Malta is not happy with the teachers...

Virtual Language Institute enrols 300,000 in Syria

As Covid-19 moves English language teaching online, thousands of Syrian English language students displaced by war and separated by the 10-year-old conflict are catching...

Maltese teachers’ plight hits headlines again

Maltese EFL teachers are struggling to get by as financial assistance, promised by the government, has been slow in arriving, according to the Times...

Ten-year-old teaches English to thousands

A ten-year-old New Yorker has recently established an online English programme teaching tens of thousands of students in countries including China, Mexico, Germany, Singapore...

London’s North Koreans learn English online

North Korean defectors living in the UK, many of whom have lost their jobs and don’t qualify for government Covid-19 financial support, are intensifying...

Mentoring teachers to research their classrooms

A free-to-download practical handbook from the British Council Mentoring Teachers to Research Their Classrooms: A Practical Handbook By Richard Smith (University of Warwick, UK) British Council India,...
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