Friday, April 4, 2025

Issue 484

      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 30 1989, a date that foreign language lecturers in Italian universities...

      What PRELIM 2023 Reveals

      The third year of the British Council PRELIM project, which creates partnerships between English UK members and teacher’s...

      Suddenly it’s Summer

      This year’s summer school special looks at what is changing in the vacation market and what is still...

      Calculating the Summer school rankings

      Melanie Butler reveals the data behind our top summer centres for 2023 On the page 21 of our digital...

      Agents beware of ignoring BC advice

      Reading the reports can save a lot of problems, Melanie Butler reports Most Agents choose a school based on...

      Leaning into PISA’s language test

      In 2025 the OECD is launching its Foreign Language Assessment (FLA) as part of its famous suite of PISA tests. Designed by Cambridge University...

      Linguistics and grammar – time for a divorce?

      Ninety years ago, a Danish academic wrote: “It is important to keep the two concepts time and tense strictly apart”. Unfortunately the writer was...

      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...

      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 series editor Andy Hockley correctly points...

      Testing by numbers

      The numbers from the assessment bodies, as exam boards are now usually known, shows the trendline going upwards, no matter which metric you use. When...

      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 in time and resources to create...
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