English loses ground in China
According to the Bangkok Post, Chinese parents are worried about the impact cutting back on English lessons will have on their children.
In response to...
Bank on learning English
Banco Santander is offering a thousand Santander Languages Scholarships for English through the University of Pennsylvania. The intention is that these will help non-native...
What the world wants to learn
Learning a new skill was one of the ways many of us spent lockdown and acquiring a new language was a popular choice. But...
School non, streaming oui
A poll for Berlitz France Licorne found that 72% of French people don’t think their English lessons at school helped them to speak the...
Push for pre-school English in Japan
Although English is taught in Japanese schools, few learn the language sufficiently to hold even a simple conversation. The solution, according to Akira Murata,...
English teacher saved from bomb
An Afghan British Council English teacher and his wife were saved by soldiers from the Kabul airport bomb, which killed 170, with just minutes...
