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September 2022

Jamaican teacher wants to bring it home

One of this year’s recipients of a Chevening Scholarship is Venice Irving, from Kingston, Jamaica. Chevening is the UK Government’s international scholarships and fellowships programme funded by the Funded...

Sterling crisis favours UK unis, but not yet language schools

“This is good news for international students,” one commentator on the woes of the pound, told Singapore’s Straight...

And the most studied language in the EU is….

It won’t come as a surprise to anyone that English is once again the most studied language by...

Learning English again debated in China

As reported in the Global Times, the importance – or not – of Chinese children learning English at...

US and Spain renew educational exchange

The USA and Spain have a memorandum of understanding to study each other’s languages and culture which was...

Higher English for Afghan refugees

When Afghan refugees started arriving in the United States in large numbers last year, some of those at the English Language Program (ELP) at...

Vietnamese pre-schools to introduce English

As the new school year starts in Vietnam, a number of initiatives have been introduced by the country’s Ministry of Education and Training. Along...

Ireland’s accommodation crisis continues

Post-Brexit, Ireland is bursting at the seams. As a measure of how desperate the situation has become, the executive director of the Irish Council...

Morocco moving toward English

A study conducted by the British Council, which surveyed 1,200 Moroccans on their perceptions of the dominance of French in their country and what...

Language student held in chains by school staff

A Japanese language school has been kicked off the government scheme for enrolling would-be migrants after a member of staff used chains to forcibly...

US Marshalls grab EFL teacher on most wanted list

Raymond 'RJ' McLeod, one of the US Marshall’s most wanted suspects, has been found teaching English in EL Salvador after more than six years...
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