Monday, December 23, 2024

Issue 484

On-line invigilation can beat the bots

Not many people will have missed the recent hype regarding the impact of ChatGPT on the education sector since its launch in November. It is a debate which the...

CULTIVATING TEACHER WELLBEING

Kate Brierton and Christina Gkonou Cambridge University Press and Assessment, 2022 ISBN: 978-1-108-93286 In his preface, Cambridge Educational Management...

Testing by numbers

The numbers from the assessment bodies, as exam boards are now usually known, shows the trendline going upwards,...

Why Perfectly Spoken is best in class

Perfectly Spoken is an award winning, fully customisable English language learning platform. Over five years have been invested...

Forty-four years and counting

Henry Rodgers tells the full story of Italy’s foreign language lettori and their historic fight against discrimination On May...

A quarter of UK accredited centres gone

A further 24 operations have shut down or opted to leave the British Council Accreditation scheme since September 2022, the Gazette can reveal. This...

The world’s smallest major ELT destination is full

Melanie Butler investigates the smallest and largest ELT destinations This time last year when I called MEI, the Irish association of regulated language schools, to...

BC Tokyo staff strike over forced retirement

British Council Tokyo staff have started industrial action against forced retirement at the age of 65, in what is believed to be the first...

English in the Mediterranean – the secrets of Malta’s success?

It has been a truism for some years that Ireland has the most English Language schools per capita of any English language destination. Outside...

Secret of Nottingham Success

The University of Nottingham excels in all the ELT metrics: It features in the QS international rankings for both Linguistics and Education as it...

The bilingual boy who showed us how language links to dyslexia

Alex has been interviewed by the BBC,” a friend e-mailed me, sending a link to an article. Which Alex? As I clicked on the...
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