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Issue 477 - Sep 2021

What is a boarding school?

The British boarding school resides in a unique niche. Melanie Butler shines a light on what it’s all about Language courses owned and run by British boarding schools are still...

Filipino teachers feel impact of China’s new rules

Filipino teachers have been among the worst hit by China’s crackdown on online English Language classes, part of...

Has Covid weakened the chain school links?

Melanie Butler examines the results of the chains for strengths and consistency Calculating the rankings for chain schools has...

The answer book

Where to go when you just don’t know 50 QUESTIONS ABOUT ENGLISH USAGE David Crystal Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers:...

Northern stars

Co-operation is the secret to the success of universities in the north of England, says Melanie Butler Take a...

Global trends in online ESL opportunities

What schools are looking for in their teachers, by Gerald Nikolai Smith 'All you need is a bachelor’s degree, TEFL and 5hrs of free time...

The sorry state of UK language schools

Finding out exactly what has happened to the UK language sector during Covid isn’t easy. The British Council website only lists centres which are...

Top 100 for 2021

Melanie Butler explains how we calculate our rankings The Top 100 UK language centres ranking only covers providers inspected by the British Council. More than...

Prehistoric languages

How the Stone Age was more about hurling words than rocks Insults and metaphors may have characterised the earliest prehistoric human languages, according to a...

Where the world meets

ICEF Berlin makes an ideal launch pad to get back in the swing It’s been a long time coming, but at last we’re able to...

Can we disentangle TEFL from its colonial past?

Yes, says Alice Rodgers, but first we must be aware of it I was only about 20 when I moved to Colombia for a year...
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