Is hibernation the answer to a Covid Christmas?
Melanie Butler tries to sort out what's going on with school closures.
Dominion School of English, at over 50 years old possibly one of the...
Hungary names the problem
Confusion reigns in Hungary’s English-medium kindergarten sector after these institutions received letters in November from the Ministry of Human Resources informing them that –...
PLS closures in Scotland
Over forty per cent of Scotland’s year-round private language schools have closed down due to the pandemic, and more will follow unless the government...
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...
