Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Issue 482 - Oct 2022

      Saudis favour US books, but UK schools

      A recent flurry of course-book adoptions in Saudi Arabia suggest that, though the UK seems to remain the top destination for Saudi students, when it comes to course material...

      ELTon judges go nuts for Brazil

      This year’s shortlist has Melanie Butler singing its innovative praises Innovating against the odds – that is the motto...

      Upskilling in ELT

      Ready for the next step in your teaching career? Gerald Nikolai Smith explores what’s out there Moving up in...

      Escape to New Zealand

      Kim Renner and the board of English New Zealand explain how their schools can help English language teachers...

      “EFL students want native-English-speaker teachers!”

      Is this fact or fallacy? Caitlin Nolan devised a study to find out Much research provides, and some anecdotes...

      The Covid fall-out on Centres of Excellence

      Melanie Butler on who has survived, thrived and dived in the past two years There have been a number of major changes to our Centre...

      Uni numbers drop but scores stay high

      Melanie Butler explains the numbers Twenty-nine British universities are currently accredited by the British Council, down nine since the beginning of Covid, a drop of...

      On losing languages

      The world’s diversity of languages is rapidly shrinking but, as Wayne Trotman reports, one writer has done his best to catalogue those that remain LINGUIST...

      It can pay to go mainstream

      These educational institutions often attract the best teachers, says Melanie Butler It’s fashionable in British EFL to view language schools as part of the hospitality...

      Speak perfectly

      Online learning platform Perfectly Spoken is your route to successful English acquisition Perfectly Spoken offers online English language training for adults and young adults on...

      Scores improve during Covid

      Making sense of the numbers The mean average score for the number of areas of strength awarded to language centres since March 2020 has risen...
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